[thechat] Just stirring the turd...

[Bill Haenel]

I really can't resist this. This is too easy to let it go without running it
down through the channels of thechat. The following excerpt came from The
National Review Online, and was the last of several "myths" that the author,
Victor Davis Hanson, set out to debunk about this current war. I just really
wanted to throw it out and see what happens:

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["Myth" #6]

War has never solved anything.

Quite the contrary. The three greatest scourges of the 20th century —
Nazism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism — were defeated through
war or continued military resistance. More were killed by Hitler, Stalin,
and Mao outside of combat than died in World Wars I and II. War, as Sherman
said, is all hell, but as Heraclitus admitted it is also "the father of us
all." Wickedness — whether chattel slavery, the gas chambers, or
concentration camps — has rarely passed quietly into the night on its own.
The present evil isn't going to either.
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Well?

BH