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if i as the leader of one country have a relationship with you as the leader of another country, and one of us feels threatened by a neighboring country, we can negotiate a mutual protection treaty where by if one of us is attacked, the other will come to their defense. much like the nato treaty that we have with several countries.
NATO is a bad idea, perhaps it wasn't as bad at the time, when Stalin was still alive and kicking, but it serves no purpose now.
Chamberlain knew he couldn't actually defend Poland, and he entered into a defense pact anyway. THAT is what he truly ought to be damned for by history--not Munich.
NATO is a bad idea, perhaps it wasn't as bad at the time, when Stalin was still alive and kicking, but it serves no purpose now.
Chamberlain knew he couldn't actually defend Poland, and he entered into a defense pact anyway. THAT is what he truly ought to be damned for by history--not Munich.
no, what chamberlain and other european leaders should be damned for is appeasing hitler in the first place. they let him annex austria, and the sudetenland, and then the rest of the chech republic. all that did was embolden hitler in his efforts to gain full control over the european continent. had they stopped hitler early on, perhaps world war two would not have happened in europe.
When Truman lied to America that Hiroshima was a military base rather than a city full of civilians, people no doubt wanted to believe him. Who would want the shame of belonging to the nation that commits a whole new kind of atrocity.
I get your point; however, the Japanese did not follow the rules of war. Their treatment of our servicemen was despicable. OF course, the treatment of the Southern and Union armies of servicemen was also probably considered despicable as well.
Dropping the bomb saved American lives and ended the war, right quick. When your country is at war, that is really the first priority.
Think Germany wouldn't have done the same if they were able?
A ground campaign would have lasted forever and killed many more people that two bombs did. We would have lost that many on a beach landing the first week. I'd rather it was axis dying than allied whether or not they were carrying a weapon.
I get your point; however, the Japanese did not follow the rules of war. Their treatment of our servicemen was despicable.
We don't accept excuses of that sort (he did it first) from our children. Why do we from our public servants?
(Aside from that, most people with a normally calibrated moral perspective do believe that non-combatants and combatants are not to be treated in anything like the same manner.)
How many innocent men, women and children died at the behest of Truman?
Who gives a rip.......IT WAS A WAR! bad things happen in war. To bad we don't fight wars like grandpa did, we would not have half the problems we do now..............
Who gives a rip.......IT WAS A WAR! bad things happen in war. To bad we don't fight wars like grandpa did, we would not have half the problems we do now..............
People with morals "give a rip." Low-life pieces of trash do not. (Although they are the first to whine when it happens to them or their country.)
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