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

Mitchell Holman wrote:
> 
> "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in


> > 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.
> 
>      More specifically, avoid wars you cannot win.
>
Really? So you'd give up when the Martians invaded planet Earth in
"War of the Worlds"?


> Britain
> was in no shape militarily to take on Germany in 1938.
>
Why was that? Wasn't it because Britain wasn't building a viable
war machine while Germany was?


> They
> were still flying biplanes in front line units, sonar and
> radar were still experimental, and the public was not ready
> to sup****t a war. Chamberlain bought the vital time that
> the British needed to rearm and even then it was a close call.
>
Bought the vital time? In what way?


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