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These idiots had grandparents saying: what has Hitler done to us?...negotiate with Hitler, don't bomb him...Jews here in the U.S. are just making up the atrocities...Hitler will stop at Poland...look, he wants peace just like we do...Hitler is not building up his military...the cost of attacking Hitler will be just too expensive

Intersting documentary on the M1 Abrams tank on the History Channel last night. It was pointed out that prior to the first Gulf War (when did the Iran-Iraq war stop being "The Gulf War"?) the Abrams had nver been used in battle. The Iraqi tanks had. Successfully. The Republican Guard really believed that when it came to a ground war, they would win. Not that we would be pushovers, mind you. Just that they would beat us.

Rewind back to the years before WWII. When you think about the populations and the economies Germany Japan and Italy chose to antagonize, they should have had no chance. I know that we were in the middle of a Depression, but so was everybody. So how did the these three countries rule half of the industrialized world for 5 years? Appeasement.