
After hearing Bush telling 70% of America to: 'fuck off, I'm the decidinator and I'm gonna invade Iran too!' it's become clear that BushCo never intended their conquest to end at Iraq, that indeed it was just the first step in a regional campaign encompassing the greater Middle East; and that the entire PNAC plot collapsed when Iraq didn't turn out to be the 'cakewalk' that the neo-cons claimed it would.
Well, duh, we all know this now...so:
Let's go back a bit to Sept 1, 1939. That's the day Germany invaded Poland, which caused much of the world to declare war on Germany.
They declared war on Germany because it is wrong for one nation to invade and occupy another nation merely because it wants to do so.
That's the reason we, as an international community, went to war with Iraq in the first Gulf War- they invaded Kuwait.
Anyway, back to 1939- by the time the nascent Allies got it together, it was too late for Poland, which, ironically, would have to wait a long, long time to be 'liberated' , as it went directly from Nazi to Soviet domination.
But imagine if the USSR hadn't attacked Poland from the east and that Germany was unable to
roll over the Poles and instead of easily taking control of Poland and going on to wage WW2 for the next 5 1/2 years, the bulk of the German Army had become bogged down in Warsaw, waging an endless defensive war against a fractious civilian resistance .
Let's say that after about four years of escalating German casualties and no tangible results in the Poland war, the German people start to wonder if their leader knows what the hell he is doing. Perhaps the German public becomes informed that one of the major reasons for the invasion was actually staged by the Government in order to justify the war they wanted so badly? Perhaps they would start removing the 'H' bumperstickers from their Volkswagens and start declaring their dissatisfaction by taking to the streets in angry demonstrations of what is now the majority opinion?
How would the German leader react?
First, he'd remind the civilians that he was The Boss.
Then his minions would insinuate that pointing out the Emperor's Clothes was tantamount to treason .
Then he'd declare war on Russia.
6 comments:
your preaching to the choir sweetcakes..now lets see if we can get some of them jackasses, that are still waving his banner to come to their senses...
What Granny said.
"Whoever doesn't remember the past,is condemned to relive it"..
You've drawn some great parallels allan..
JS & Whim,
I know.
Sling,
There so many to draw and blogs get long fast...
This is going to not sound like me - I guess it's my military background. =)
If we waged war like the Germans did, Iraq would be a very different landscape. It's interesting to me how the dynamics and politics of war have evolved over time. I think many things for the good, but sometimes at the cost of our own population.
What I'm saying is that if the Germans waged war the way we do, history would be much different.
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