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It's poetry, Ed

The beauty is in the irony of just how wrong he was.
It is so instrumental to reflect on just how many leading people of the pre-WWII era were just flat-out wrong.


Maybe in that parallel universe, where the USA was not pulled into WWII, there was no threatening USSR, Red China failed to start properly, Tibet remained free, there was no cold war, no MAD. Maybe Naziism was pulled down by efforts from within itself, and it gave rise to a European government more free and effecient than those currently in power.

Not a bet I would be prepared to make! But when stating how right my way is and how wrong another was, without being able to show more than one path that history chose... I think a little humility is in order.

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