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To: ansel12

No, the only argument is not whether it could have been done.

There is a moral argument as to whether the cost, in American, Russian and European lives, not to mention immense human suffering among the survivors, would be worth it.

Not everything we are capable of doing is worth the price.

Reasonable people can differ on whether fighting the Russians at the end of WWII would have been worth the price.

What cannot be argued is that the American people simply would not have agreed to do it. Nobody, luckily, in our society or government has the power to make such decisions and force everybody else to obey.

Such a society is an absolute monarchy or dictatorship. Which, BTW, sometimes make wiser long-term decisions than democracies or republics.


18 posted on 05/25/2015 9:36:56 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

The discussion does remain was it doable.

As it was, the cost of the Cold War is measurable, costing America alone about 150,000 lives and untold dollars, and it changed us forever.

Much of the destruction of our freedoms and the takeover of America by the left, came out of the results that our president for life created.

It is still valid to ponder whether the West would have survived, if we had finished WWII, instead of the Communists winning it, as it is, the West is on it’s way out.


24 posted on 05/25/2015 10:34:07 AM PDT by ansel12
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