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

"Bill Bonde { ''the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack'')"  
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> Mitchell Holman wrote:
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>> "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > 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.
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>>      More specifically, avoid wars you cannot win.
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> Really? So you'd give up when the Martians invaded planet Earth in
> "War of the Worlds"?
> 


  Why do you Republicans always think fiction is factual?


"We need space based defense weapons because without 
them we would not have won in "Red Storm Rising"
--US Vice President Dan Quayle



 
>> 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?


    Yep. Britain was dominated by the Conservative
Party at the time and thus utterly out of touch with
reality, as conservative governments tend to be. 



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>> 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?


    http://members.tripod.com/~leavis/ww2.html