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HOW WE ARE LOSING WORLD WAR II
Life Magazine ^ | Jan/07/1946 | John Dos Passos

Posted on 10/18/2003 3:25:55 AM PDT by Dallas59

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To: Dallas59
Thanks for the post! A great find from Mr. Dos Passos, and infamous lefty...

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/aaron-chap15.html

41 posted on 10/18/2003 1:42:21 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (DEFUND NPR & PBS - THE AMERICAN PRAVDA)
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To: Dallas59; Sabertooth
Thanks for the post and the ping, guys!

Oh, the chaos of peace!

42 posted on 10/18/2003 3:49:27 PM PDT by mrustow (no tag)
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To: Dallas59
We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease.

Amazing.

43 posted on 10/18/2003 4:17:22 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: Sabertooth
Great post from the Time Machine.

Agreed. The atrocities committed by the Soviets was, and is, under reported.
After the intial conquest and brutalities, the ethnic cleansing of Germans from Pommerainia, Selisia, Prussia, and Sudetenland was anything but gentle.

44 posted on 10/18/2003 4:42:09 PM PDT by rightofrush (right of Rush, and Buchanan too.)
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To: Sabertooth
And then there was the Marshall Plan, one of the most spledidly successful government endeavors even attempted and achieved. Patience is a virtue.
45 posted on 10/18/2003 9:49:40 PM PDT by Torie
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And then there was the Marshall Plan, one of the most spledidly successful government endeavors even attempted and achieved. Patience is a virtue

Yeah, we'll be in Iraq at least a decade. It'll take a disaster (or a Democrat) to get us out early, and a bigger disaster will follow if we leave early.

A point about the Marshall Plan: I think the model is overused. One of the keys to its success is that Europe was trashed. WWII was dirty, long, and bloody enough to kill enough of the bad guys and bludgeon the spirit of war from the survivors. Those circumstances made it a lot easier to plant the seeds for our way of doing things.

I'm interested in seeing whether a three week war with a more foreign culture tills the ground in quite the same way.


46 posted on 10/18/2003 10:29:33 PM PDT by Sabertooth (No Drivers' Licences for Illegal Aliens. Petition SB60. http://www.saveourlicense.com/n_home.htm)
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Yes, it is overused. Europe had a skilled and disciplined workforce, that just needed someplace to work productively. But if the model will work anywhere in the Arab world, it will work in Iraq. We shall see.
47 posted on 10/18/2003 10:34:05 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Sabertooth
Tony Snow used this on FOX News Sunday, today. It was superb.
48 posted on 10/19/2003 8:47:02 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in groups or whole armies.....we don't care how we getcha, but we will)
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To: Sabertooth
Thanks for the heads up!
49 posted on 10/19/2003 9:09:54 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: BOBTHENAILER; ItisaReligionofPeace
It ran again last night on FNC, I believe on Brit Hume's show. Extensive coverage, they spent some time on it, even had a Liberal professor comment, to be "fair and balanced". He made some "similarities are superficial" natterings. I can verify which show, if anyone really needs to know, I'm pretty sure it's still on the TiVo.
50 posted on 10/22/2003 2:42:29 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
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It ran again last night on FNC, I believe on Brit Hume's show. Extensive coverage, they spent some time on it, even had a Liberal professor comment, to be "fair and balanced".

Wonderful.....this needs widespread dissemination.

51 posted on 10/22/2003 9:09:23 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in groups or whole armies.....we don't care how we getcha, but we will)
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