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To: donmeaker

My point was that Germany had no more moral compunction to observe the first Treaty of Versailles than France had to observe the second one.


158 posted on 02/22/2013 4:49:08 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Except that would free any nation to break any agreement.

All agreements are made under some expectation of reward and punishment.

For example, Iran agreed, in exchange for the US providing nuclear expertise and materials for power plants, to give up any right to pursue nuclear weapons.

Violation of that or any agreement invokes penalties. If there is no expectation that an agreement will be kept, then there is no reason to give an agreement.

Consider the parole agreements generously given to Southern soldiers after the surrender of their armies in North Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi. Certainly such an agreement is given under threat of punishment. Without the expectation that it would be kept, the soldiers would be detained, with the usual high loss of life from disease associated with that.


159 posted on 02/22/2013 11:09:55 AM PST by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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