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To: Mount Athos

The West missed a huge opportunity at the end of WWI to hold the Ottoman leaders to account, just as we did the Nazis in WWII. A new government, with a revived Constantinople, could have been established - and history, and even many of the Turks themselves, would have accepted it as reasonable victor’s justice.


3 posted on 09/16/2014 11:25:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
The West missed a huge opportunity at the end of WWI to hold the Ottoman leaders to account, just as we did the Nazis in WWII.

That would have required an invasion of Turkey and the deaths of hundreds of thousands more Triple Entente (and American) troops. No one was up for more blood-letting. They were all fought out.

8 posted on 09/16/2014 11:56:33 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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