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Tom Brosz — (archived)

Interesting in that you have to ask that question.

WWI was something that happened "over there." From a certain standpoint, fighting that war was almost optional.

Since the late 1930s we have been exposed to forces with the ambition to take over the world, and for the first time, the technical means to do so. Missiles falling on London taught some important lessons. The Germans came inches short of eventually hitting the U.S. with missiles.

The Nazis and Japanese were forced back. The Soviets were held off from eating the rest of Europe by America pointing thermonuclear missiles at their cities.

Had the U.S. decided to sit out WWII, Europe would, today, either be part of the Third Reich, a Soviet satellite state, or some rotten combination of the two. It would have been interesting to get Butler's opinion on this if he had belonged to a slightly later era.

Now the West is fighting a shadow war with Islamic fundamentalism (see my post "Demographics" on Current Events.) And we are having the same arguments about how to deal with it.

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