[thechat] Just stirring the turd...

[spinhead]

Friends of friends lived (and on occasion, died) in Nazi concentration
camps. Others (friends of acquaintances of . . . slightly more tenuous link)
more recently (in Rwanda, Burundi, other places) are in similar situations
for the same reason - religious persecution.

Ask one of those individuals if the war on Nazism helped them. Yes, the war
stopped Hitler personally. But there are people in my neighborhood (upscale
southern California) who claim to follow his tenets. There are people all
over the world in a situation not much better than those in Nazi
concentration camps. So, what was the net benefit?

spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Haenel" <bill at ncpr.org>
To: "Thechat at Lists. Evolt. Org" <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:02 AM
Subject: [thechat] Just stirring the turd...


> 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:
>
> *******************************
> ["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.
> *******************************
>
> Well?
>
> BH
>
>
>