Dan Minette wrote: > I'm not arguing that the war reparations were not a bad > idea...but that > they were essentially dropped and were thus meaningless. In a > sense, the > difference between WWI and WWII was that the winners ran the > losing country > for the benefit of the losers for a number of years (with the obvious > exception of East Germany). So, the lesson from WWI and WWII > would seem to > be "win decisively and convincingly and be very magnanimous > and generous in > victory."
Yes, as long as 'the magnanimity and generosity in victory' stays out of the realm of sheer stupidity. I mean, look at what happened in 1947/8 and '71 - India won both the wars decisively and convincingly....was stupidly magnanimous in victory. So '48 gave birth to the Kashmir problem and in '71 Bhutto declared a 1000 year jihad against India. Right after he came back from Shimla, before descending from the plane even. :) Ritu _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
