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To: aladin who wrote (175969)	8/10/2006 12:38:05 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793670

Excellent response, aladin.

To: aladin who wrote (175969)	8/10/2006 1:24:36 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793670

but by 1945 all these threats were gone. Yep. We knocked the stuffing out of the enemy and they gave up. todays 'liberals' transplanted to 1941 would be asking 'Why do the Japanese hate us? Maybe, but that's neither here nor there. This is not WWII. Your comparison doesn't hold up on the question of feasibility of a military victory. If we were at war with Muslim national armies in a conventional war and if we were prepared to blast all those countries until they cried uncle, then you'd have a valid comparison. A better comparison with what we're doing now is swatting at a hornet's nest, never a good idea.

To: aladin who wrote (175969)	8/10/2006 2:39:42 PM
From: ig	Respond to of 793670

Resistance and War will increase risk, that is a fact. Only short-term. In retrospect, it's too bad we didn't accept a bit more short-term risk back in, say, 1938. Or even 1932: "Do not delude yourselves. Do not let His Majesty’s government believe -- I am sure they do believe -- that all that Germany is asking for is equal status. I believe the refined term now is equal qualitative status by indefinitely deferred stages. That is not what Germany is seeking. All these bands of sturdy Teutonic youths, marching through the streets and roads of Germany, with the light of desire in the eyes to suffer for their Fatherland, are not looking for status. They are looking for weapons, and, when they have the weapons, believe me they will then ask for the return of lost territories and lost colonies...." -Winston Churchill, 1932 Unwillingness to face shorter-term risk eventually resulted in 400,000 dead American soldiers and untold millions dead innocents.