I agree completely.


>Tracy,
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>That are a lot of "What if's". No-one is able to predict how the world would have looked like right now without the US intervention. Maybe we would have been in war maybe in peace, maybe the russians took over. Maybe I would speak german right now. But this also accounts to the US. Maybe the US was not the world power rights now, maybe you'd be speaking Japanese, German. etc.
>Remember that the future is more determined by economic, scientific and political factors than military (despite of what most of us seem to think up here).
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>Really nobody knows, but it is no use about rethinking about that. After all looking in retrospect who, nowerday really care about what happened to the Roman, Habsburg, Austrian, ottoman, napolean empire. We are here in this point in time, irregardless of how we came to be here. Also one times friend could be another times enemy (all too familiar on europes battlefields). Our arguments should about the future and not stuck to 'what if's in the past. The number of people who participated in WWII, motives and ideologies are dying out soon). It is time to look ahead. Being stuck in the past is not going to solve any issues we are dealing with today. This is why governments need to be more 'progressive'.
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