For some time, I have been crossing my fingers in the hopes that Obama selects Biden as his running mate. Biden was definitely my first choice. Here’s why:
(Hat tip to Dad for emailing me that video)
From now on, McCain’s campaign ads can be simply clips of Hillary and Biden talking. Here’s a place for the McCain campaign to start.
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August 24th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Hans, Tho it is a moot point in the broader discussion, I slightly disagree with your comment regarding Czechoslovakia circa 1938.
By 1938, German rearmament had already reached a point where war was inevitable. If France would have assured Czechoslovakia it would stand by it’s obligations to her, then Germany would not have invaded *at that time*. Winston Churchill quotes Marshal Keitel from the Nuremburg trials on this point in his historical account, “The Gathering Storm”.
Colonel Eger, representing Czechoslovakia, asked Marshal Keitel: “Would the Reich have attached Czechoslovakia in 1938 if the Wester Powers had stood by Prague?”
Marshal Keitel answered:
“Certainly not. We were not strong enough militarily. The object of Munich (i.e., reachin an agreement at Munich) was to get Russia out of Europe, to gain time, and to complete the German armaments.”
Thus insinuating that Germany was preparing for war, and merely would have waited until armaments had completed to a satisfactory point had the Western powers stood by Czechoslovakia.
To truly have averted WWII, Britain and France would needed to have responded quite differently in 1933 when Germany left the Disarmament Convention. Although, If I remember correctly, Churchill notes that he believed war could have been averted as late as 1936…
August 25th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Hans – absolutely correct in your follow up comments. I agree entirely.
If you ever have the bent, Churchill’s memoirs of WWII are fascinating to read. He draws heavily from his actual memo’s issued during the events, which to me lends additional credibility above and beyond that of “he was there”.
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