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To: PGR88
The West missed a huge opportunity at the end of WWI to hold the Ottoman leaders to account, just as we did the Nazis in WWII.

That would have required an invasion of Turkey and the deaths of hundreds of thousands more Triple Entente (and American) troops. No one was up for more blood-letting. They were all fought out.

8 posted on 09/16/2014 11:56:33 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei
That would have required an invasion of Turkey and the deaths of hundreds of thousands more Triple Entente (and American) troops. No one was up for more blood-letting. They were all fought out.

Gallipoli

14 posted on 09/16/2014 1:09:44 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection " - Glen Morgan, Freedom Foundation.)
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