[DiogenesLamp]

So then, you agree that we were much nicer to Germans at the end of the Second World War, and that's why they don't want "revenge" today?

We are still occupying them. I have little doubt that were we to leave, there is a good chance the Germans would go back to making trouble again. I think there is something in the German psyche that just begs for a strong man forcing "order" on them and their neighbors.

They seemingly have a preference for dictators.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp on Germany: "We are still occupying them.
I have little doubt that were we to leave, there is a good chance the Germans would go back to making trouble again."

So, given your theory of German national psyches (though I disagree), you do agree that our behavior after the Second World War was, in effect, nicer than after the First, implying that's just what we should have done in 1918.

And in that you would be agreeing with such brilliant American minds of that time as US Commanding General John Pershing and our young assistant Secretary of the Navy, a handsome lad with a great future, one Franklin D. Roosevelt.

DiogenesLamp: "They seemingly have a preference for dictators."

Ach, so! Muttie Merkle eine Diktator?!