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To: Taro who wrote (222643)	3/7/2005 5:54:51 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572985

I didn't. We were talking about interceding in another country when it was believed they were doing wrong. You brought it down to the individual level in what appeared to be an effort to show a personal analogy. If I misunderstood and it was not an analogy, I apologize. No need to apologize, it was indeed a personal analogy and if putting a boarder in between changes much depends on the circumstances. Denmark and Sweden seem kind of hypothetic to me though, EU and everything else considered. Yes, I believe that as civilized humans, under circumstances we should not sit duck and wait for the genocides in Balkan, Africa or Middle East just taking their toll while Al Jazeera, CNN and Fox have a ball. That's where the UN resolutions come in and as far as I recall, with the blessing of France and in tacit agreement of Germany Saddam "successfully" ignored a couple a couple of them until the proverbial dodo hit the proverbial fan. Except Saddam was in compliance with the most important objectives of the UN resolutions; that is, the dismantling of his war machine. Remember.......no WMDs. Think about how WWII maybe could have been prevented by intervening in Germany for violating the 1920 agreements prior to 1939. Okay. I've had enough of this crap........Chamberlin was a fart who let Hitler get away with murder. Its enough already. First off, the allies stuck it to Germany in the hope of making some good money off the backs of Germans. There was nothing fair about the peace treaties that were signed in 1920. If they acted too strongly by directly intervening, it was very likely they would be forced to rewrite the peace documents and reduced Germany's reparations. They liked the money coming in.....when people are pigging out at the trough, very few will voluntarily cut back. Its not human nature to do so. Secondly, when they got to the 1930s, it was the Depression. France, the UK and the US were all reeling from its economic effects. All three gov'ts were in serious debt with unemployment rates as high as 25%. Not one of them could afford to start a war. In fact, Hitler had to default on everything to come up with enough money to build his war machine Thirdly, wars are costly not only in terms of money but in terms of human lives. Some humans believe that every option should be explored before going to war. That makes very good sense to me. Unfortunately for the allies, they were dealing with a mad man. There have been very few modern leaders as crazy as Hitler. So who knew? Given human nature and economic conditions, I think the allies played it exactly right. The only way to have stopped what came done was to intercede when the Bundestag made Hitler chancellor of the Reich. And no one, absolutely no one but you hindsight jockeys, could have predicted what a monster Hitler would become. ted