Actually I think he was just trying to avoid listing every event in World History in one online post...and instead give a general overview of the major conflicts in history. Why do you take such issue with it?
The era of WW1 saw the fall of the Monarchies. WW2 was a war against totalitarian dictatorships. Many of today's mideast terrorists are driven by religious fanaticism. Not quite the same as a Theocracy, but certainly the same idea. On 7/17/06, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's very pat. You have WW1 as a war against Monarchy? And WW2 against > dictators? The problem with that paradigm is that it fails to take into > account, oh, let's see... > > The Shah of Iran, Pinochet, Panama, the French and Russian revolutions, > the continued existence of a British constitutional monarchy, United Fruit, > Manifest Destiny, the assassination of whomacallit in Sarejevo, the failure > of the US to enter WW2 until attacked, Japanese Spanish and Thai monarchs, > and almost the entire history of South and Central America. Among other > inconvenient facts. Not to mention the fact that the current combattants > don't include any theocracies. > > But hey.. don't mind me ;) I can see you are having fun. > > > >I wasn't really commenting on Bush except to say how wrong he was > >about nation building, but I think he realizes that. > > > >The main point was that the World has been through 3 wars fighting > >against tyrannical forms of government: Monarchies, > >fascism/dictatorships, and communism. Now we're at the door of a > >fourth: theocracies. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:211352 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
