On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 08:19 AM, Mark Wonsil wrote:

<<big snip>>

> Christian wrote:
>> But now, things are becoming dead serious. The USA, by the voice of
>> its President, is pretty seriously considering going to a preemtive
>> war, thus turning back centuries of political and military doctrine
>> against pre-emptive strikes. I can't remember of another unprovoked
>> war in history that did not end in a catastrophe. Think of the Nazis
>> attacking the USSR in 1941 (if that was not a pre-emptive strike,
>> then what was it ?), think of the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor,
>> and lots of others.
>
> Very ironic you bring up the Nazis.  Like Iraq, Germany was defeated
> in a
> war and like Iraq, Germany was to remain unarmed.  Time and time again
> Germany continued to build up its forces, well before the 1941
> invasion of
> the USSR.

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.
My older brother and two older brothers-in-law served in the Army in
Europe. I too, took on an isolationist view and joined the Marines a)
because it was the smallest group (I strongly dislike large
organizations and b) so that I wouldn't have to (directly) help the
French & British even though I knew that Hitler was terrible and I
wanted the French & British to win.

Sanctions Suck --- Fred

"The way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."
  - Abraham Lincoln

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