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George Worley wrote:
> 
> In article <35BEA7F0.D696E75A@ibm-pc.org>
> on Tue, 28 Jul 1998 23:41:20 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
> <jrfrank@ibm-pc.org> wrote:
> 
> >George Worley wrote:
> >>
> >> You would think by now as much as we have learned from war that war
> >> should always be used is a last resort.  War kills innocent people.
> >> Just look at the Vietnam Police Action -- we commonly call it the
> >> Vietnam War but the US never formally declared war... I seem to
> >> remember a Lt. Kelly that killed a bunch of innocent women and
> >> children.  War should only be used when diplomacy fails.
> >
> >So Chamberlain was right to appease Hitler?  His "diplomacy" only
> >delayed the inevitable long enough for Germany to complete its military
> >buildup (and the ceding of the heavily industrialized Sudetanland
> >certainly helped that buildup), thereby needlessly prolonging the war
> >and costing countless lives.
> 
> But if he had been successful then we would not have lost any many
> people if any in the war.  Diplomacy is the first line of defense.
> War is not the first line of defense.

Define "successful."  Does that mean that "only" the Jewish populations
in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia get slaughtered?

Hitler laid out his master plan for all the world to see in 1925.  The
rest of the world ignored him until it was too late.  No amount of
"diplomacy" would have deterred him.  "Diplomacy" only served to delay
the war until Germany could complete its rearmament.
-- 
JRF

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