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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (152336)	11/22/2004 4:18:06 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Most every war we have ever fought was either not absolutely necessary, or not so certain in its outcome. By your criteria, those who fought in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the World Wars just as surely died in vain as those who fought in Korea, Vietnam, or the current war. That is, of course, arguable. I would argue that we go to war when we are pretty sure the alternative, including waiting, would be worse. France and Britain should have gone to war with Hitler in preference to allowing him to remilitarize the Rhineland, or after his annexation of the Sudetenland. If they had, they would have saved millions of lives. But there would have been no way to prove it.