>What would the acceptable limits of innocent people murdered and countries taken over while we waited for 'internal pressure' to work its magic?
Well, the Soviets
killed more people than Hitler,
and we let them fall
through economics --
took, what, seventy-some years?!
I've always wondered,
if FDR was
open to war, then why not
send in black op types
in the late 30s
and kill Hitler and the scum
who supported him,
and leave Germany
intact -- let the Nazis rule,
just not the bad ones.
I mean, the country
had Zeppelins criss-crossing
the oceans, they had
possible the most
advanced science and craftsmen
on the whole planet.
That's a lot to smash
cause a cadre of mad men
somehow came to power.
"Well, the Soviets killed more people than Hitler, and we let them fall"Yes, because attacking Russia would have been to launch a nuclear war, which would have destroyed the world.
"if FDR was open to war, then why not send in black op types in the late 30s and kill Hitler and the scum who supported him"
In the late 30s, no one could have predicted what Hitler would be doing in the 40s. I'm not opposed to assassinations of despots, but I don't think we should take to doing so based on prophetic visions of what that individual might do in the future.