From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 17:05:49 MDT
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Kevin Freels wrote:
> When carrying out a preemptive strike, we are only weighing possibilities,
> not realities.
Yes, but one can watch the reality and be prepared to remove it
should that prove necessary.
The "reality" of Hitler should have been dealt with any time from
1921 when he took over the "German Workers Party" to 1924 when
"Mein Kampf" was written to 1938 when the Czechoslovakian
absorption was begun or 1939 the tragedy in Poland began [1].
The question becomes precisely "How much *reality* do you want?".
I'm sure we could go through the same exercise with Japan's
behavior in China and/or Korea in the late 19th and early
part of the 20th centuries.
Now the interesting observation (IMO) would appear to be that
Britian and the U.S. appear to have learned the lesson that
you have to remove the source of the problem before it becomes
something that is so large that it is very difficult to deal with,
while France and Germany have not.
Also of interest might be a comparison between whether the
U.S. is now treating North Korea the way Britian and/or France
treated Germany in the 1930's...
For you younger folks on the list -- study your history -- your
survival may depend upon it.
Robert
1. I did a host of googles on this, but this was particularly
telling: "Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Invasion
of Poland and the Beginning of World War II", Michael Blichasz,
President Polish American Congress:
http://members.aol.com/poloniasfo/60THANNI.HTM
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