HP-3000 Systems Discussion wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Mark Wonsil wrote:
>
>> Fred wrote:
>>> Also, like Iraq, France and England, after WWI and out of fear,
>>> imposed their own version of "sanctions" on Germany whose economy
>>> was so stifled for over a decade that their people were suffering
>>> with terrible inflation (stamps cost a million or more marks, ask
>>> any collector) and, in desperation turned to Hitler as their
>>> saviour.
>>>
>>> Unknowingly, France and England had brought this on themselves. So
>>> much so that, in the late '30s, many Americans took an isolationist
>>> stance in regards to pulling the French & English chestnuts out of
>>> the fire.
>>
>> This is true, but I think if they had stuck to the military
>> sanctions...
>>
>>>
>>> "The way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."
>>>   - Abraham Lincoln
>>
>> "Friends don't let friends drive planes (into buildings)."
>
> A cute, but too simplistic answer.

It was attempt to be cute but not to answer anything.  My post was to agree
with you on how the sanctions were a part of Hitler's rise.


> What Abe meant (above) is that we should find ways to make them our
> friends. This can't happen unless and until we find out WHY they are
> our enemies and remove those reasons.

I understood the quote but I think he meant that we should find middle
ground and not continually search why others hate us.  One cannot be
responsible for the happiness of others.  That is certainly a dead end
street.  In fact Lincoln said,

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

on friends, Lincoln also said:

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll
get me a book I ain't read."

"He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men
and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero
that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies
are the easiest people to lick."

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