>>>>>But you did not answer the question I asked you. Why do you ask whether Canada and the US should have liberated the Netherlands? It seems a silly question to me.
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>>>>Peter had said "I'm not an advocate of military action, at this moment.". Just wanted to see if he was ever an advocate of military action. Some people say that wars don't solve anything... though it seems WWII did.
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>>>There was a time - the sixties and seventees - that I was a (passive) member of a pacifistic political party. We had meetings where we were told how we could sabotage the invader by changing street nameplates. We were so naive... Since then I have evolved to an entirely different POV.
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>>As if the street names weren't confusing enough, written in Dutch! :-)
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>>There was a lot of signpost twiddling in England during WW II.
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>What's the use of that? You weren't occupied, were you?

We were very much occupied in preparing for the iminent invasion, just after the Battle of Britain.