Sabri Oncu wrote: > I don't view WWI and WWII as two separate wars. It was one single war that > started in 1914 and ended in 1944, the way I see it. Call it a thirty years > war, if you like. <
I wouldn't call it one war, because the government of Germany changed dramatically. There were a lot of other changes, such as the entry of Japan into the fray and the rise of the US. It's true that in many ways WW2 was a continuation of WW1, but in many ways it wasn't. > With the rest, we are more or less in agreement, accept this: Finance capital > has a country, in my view, even today. Goldman is American, Deutsche Bank is > German, Barclays is British, what have you. I once worked at an American > place owned by Dresdner Bank, and you should have seen the rivalry among the > Brits, Americans and Germans involved in that joint. As the disinterested > party, the only Turkish there, I just sat and watched as they were harming > one another. Brits were the best and most able players in that game.< but didn't all that rivalry aid the top management -- and its lust for profits? BTW, do people from Turkey like to be called "Turkish" or "Turks"? -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
