April 2nd, 2004, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by antelope526
When's the last time Carthage bothered Rome?
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Ah, what if? What if Truman had chosen not to sack MacArthur and Mac had gotten permission to WIN the Korean War. Did Truman do the right thing, or did he fail by trying to impose a Western, Christian methodology on a people who saw his mercy and compassion merely as weakness?
Reagan caught a lot of heat for his Peacemaker missile, but people forget that, in the real world of raw, ugly human emotions, the threat of overwhelming force DOES create peace. It is my personal belief--can't prove it, but I believe it--that the presence of nuclear weapons is the main reason why there has been no big war in Europe since 1945, and if somebody magically made all the nukes vanish, war would once again be "safe" and we would start having them again.
(thus endeth today's rant.)
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