Re: Seattle Times Editorial: "Hitler Wasn't All That Bad"

"Steven L." wrote:
> 


> We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these
> sorts of reasons.
>
The goal is to not change borders for *any* sorts of reasons. We
aren't here yet.



> We have learned the hazards of it. But 1938 was only
> 19 years since Germany's borders had been redrawn, and not to its
> benefit. In the democracies there was some sense of guilt with how
> Germany had been treated after World War I. Certainly there was a memory
> of the “Great War.” In 2008, we have entirely forgotten World War I, and
> how utterly unlike any conception of “The Good War” it was. When the
> British let Hitler have a slice of Czechoslovakia, they were following
> the historical lesson they had learned 1914-1918: avoid war.
>
Was that really the lession of WWI?