Re: What has America lost?

"Don Swayser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

>  > So was that non-analogy inferring some reasonable comparison of
>  > Iraq's threat to ANY nation in 2003 to the Axis powers' threats to
>  > Europe and beyond during WWII. I forgive you.
>  >
> Only morons fail to see relevance. Human nature doesn't change. That's
> been proven over many centuries of recorded history. Many of the facts
> of the dictatorships of the twentieth century can also be compared to
> Napoleon in the eighteenth century, the Czars of the seventeenth century
>   the Hapsburgs of the fifteenth and sixteenth century, the
> Plantagenennts of the fourteenth, the Huns, Ostrogoths, Visgoths,
> Vandals, Angles, Saxons of the dark ages and Rome before that. The
> details differ, not the motives. Strong peoples and leaders want what
> others have and take it by force. How was Hussein any different? He
> wanted the oil of Iran and Kuwait and tried to take it by force. How is
> this different than Hitlers Libenstraum? Japans Greater East
> Co-prosperity Sphere? Napoleons conquests? And in the last couple
> centuries totalitarians have felt compelled to find resaons for their
> aggression. Hitler used oppressed German minorities in Czechoslovakia
> and Poland. Napoleon was feeing countires of oppressive monarchies.
> Japan was freeing Asians from Western influence. Hussein used attampted
> assassinations supposedly sponsored by Iran and Slant drilling into
> Iraqi oilfields by Kuwait. A child could see through those rationals. No
> one with an even mediocre intelligence and scant knowledge of history
> sees right through them, yet you can't. Kinda sad.

What's sadder still is your indistinction between the
Iraq of August, 1990 and the Iraq of March, 2003.
Sanctions that worked, shipments intercepted, no-fly
zones enforced, etc.

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