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Originally Posted by jbgusa
Unfortunately there is a school of thought that one makes "friends" of enemies first and then expects them to reciprocate. The problem with that was illustrated by a story told by a Congressman in relation to Administration hopes on Iran. He told of a zoo cage where a lamb was laying down next to a lion. Someone said, "so cute, so Biblical. How do you do that?" The zookeeper said "there's a different lamb in there every day."
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Yes, that school of thought was tried in WWII with the Hitler appeaser. It simply bought him time.
Like the story!