Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

MasterDebater wrote:
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> "Yuk Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "MasterDebater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> > You were talking about America fighting and winning a war alone.  For
> > her to be alone, Britain will have to have been defeated by Germany
> > (the public mood was rabidly against a negotiated peace).
> 
> That is not what I was discussing. As with all hypothetical histories, all
> conditions must be well-defined before we can proceed with discussion.
> Neither of us did that, and so misunderstanding has resulted. Please state a
> well-defined geo-political situation in which our hypothetical is likely,
> and I will then modify it in order to compromise (or tell me to generate the
> starting condition, and you can modify them).
> 
> >
> > Do you really think that America could have won WWII alone?
> >
> 
> Yes.

Odd that, several decades later, it lost Vietnam and is losing the peace
in Iraq.

or do you think that war should be played according to Pentagon Rules?

"We go in. We make a lot of noise. We drop a lot of bombs. You
surrender."

Ehrm, nope. That's a playstation game, not war.


M.