On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CB: Your hearing of this as comparable to Bush-Cheney isn't very > logical... more like _post_-emptive, since it came _after_ they had > been attacked....the complete opposite of the Bush-Cheney doctrine.
Well Cheney might argue that they too were only responding post-emptively after the WTC attacks.. > So, you are saying the Soviets should have put Germany on ice but just > left the "puppet" regimes in between in place ? I am not saying that at all. All those regimes - puppet and fascist - had to go. But there was no need for the USSR to maintain an indefinite military presence in E. Europe after the war. > Finland wasn't occupied by the Soviets after WWII. > Stalin did the right thing with Finland. Why not also with Poland, Hungary, Czechslovakia etc? -raghu. -- Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
