To: Travis McGee
Want to jump, rather than being pushed? The haves. France won't fall on their swords for anybody, too arrogant for one, too much of a sense of national survival on the other. When they've rolled over it was to live to fight another day, or the conflict ceased being beneficial to the French. Germany worries me as far as their national psyche if there really is such a thing. Aspirations of controlling all of Europe didn't begin with Hitler and didn't die with him, either.
To: RegulatorCountry
Aspirations of controlling all of Europe didn't begin with Hitler and didn't die with him, either. Correct. Cultural Flaw. Great engineers, terminal efficiency, cold as the grave.
56 posted on
06/03/2012 9:10:16 PM PDT by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: RegulatorCountry
When they've rolled over it was to live to fight another day... That and the balance of your reply reminds me of something said about another European country, Poland:
"The soul of Poland is indestructible... she will rise again like a rock, which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave, but which remains a rock.” (Churchill)
68 posted on
06/03/2012 10:26:28 PM PDT by
C210N
("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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