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To: Southack

WWI was not a matter of Good vs. Evil. It was a nonideological war and both sides were exhausting each other to the point that they couldn't continue and a negotiated settlement was inevitable had we stayed out. It's unfair ending set the stage for Hitler and Stalin. What a triumph.


89 posted on 04/19/2005 1:15:57 PM PDT by ValenB4 (Viva il Papa, Benedict XVI)
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I'm with ValenB4. Without the evil Wilson's interference, the war probably would have ended either with a German/Austrian outright victory or a negotiated settlement prior to November 1918 as desired by Pope Benedict XV. Instead, American involvement (which revived the embattled Allied cause) resulted in the tragic destruction of the last remnants of Christendom, the ancient German and Austro-Hungarian monarchies, a calamity which paved the way for Hitler and Stalin and from which Europe has still not recovered.

The first three years of the war were indeed nonideological. But with the fall of the Russian monarchy and the entry of the US in 1917, the character of the war was transformed into a very ideological conflict between the forces of "Progress" & "Democracy" (the Allies) and Tradition & Monarchy (the Central Powers), a conflict in which as a monarchist I stand firmly with the latter, as do all true conservatives.

The US has waged many unjustified wars since 1898, but World War I was the worst. I hope Wilson is burning in Hell.


117 posted on 04/19/2005 1:46:28 PM PDT by royalcello
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To: ValenB4
"WWI was not a matter of Good vs. Evil. It was a nonideological war and both sides were exhausting each other to the point that they couldn't continue and a negotiated settlement was inevitable had we stayed out. It's unfair ending set the stage for Hitler and Stalin. What a triumph."

What a straw man argument.

I said, and it is verifiably true, that WW1 required U.S. intervention to end its stalemate.

You're off on a tangent. I spoke of no such Good vs Evil points regarding that first war, though a few could be made.

154 posted on 04/19/2005 2:48:14 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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