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"His idea of a pan-European army is as crackpot as it is ungracious." --VDH

Some good trickling out of NRO. Which goes to show you, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Especially good is his countering the suggestion that nationalism caused the world wars--in fact, nationalism saved Western Civ.

1 posted on 11/20/2018 3:37:30 PM PST by aspasia
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To: aspasia

” the very absence of British and French nationalism — whether symbolized by the Oxford Union debate of 1933 or the reluctance of French schools in the 1930s to reference the bloody heroics at Verdun — led to appeasement and a fatal reliance on a weak and a morally neutered League of Nations, a series of unenforceable arms-limitations treaties, and “international opinion.” -VDH


2 posted on 11/20/2018 3:39:27 PM PST by aspasia
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Where’s the VDH ping list?


3 posted on 11/21/2018 4:42:12 AM PST by aspasia
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