Chris
>>You have chosen not to respond to them.
Oh, heavens. Very well then: my answer to each "point" is the same:
"Nevertheless Germany was the most prepared country in the world for war, and Iraq is not. Germany demanded concessions and Iraq does not. Germany had secured her borders, Iraq has not and cannot. Germany was strong, united and resurgent with a superb managed economy; Iraq is weak, corrupt and embargoed. These are significant differences in the context of "appeasement". Your tautology does not support the contention that the world "appeases" SH the way Chamberlain appeased Hitler."
What you say would have made sense if the world had "appeased" SH last time, when he invaded Kuwait. But we didn't. This time around it is nonsense.
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
