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Old December 15th, 2003, 02:51 AM
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Default Re: Military Buffs I need your help.

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Well your right I don't know what you believe. All I can glean about what you believe is based on what you write in this forum.

I won't repeat your whole argument back to you but you did eloquently state that "Every person that is able to contribute to the economy is a target." etc. etc. It's written just below.

Those were some of the same arguments the Nazis used when they rounded up whole villages and shot them.

And the point I was trying to make is that it's a slippery slope when you make arguments like these. Where do you draw the line?
That is total bull poop Rex. The Nazi’s committed acts of racial cleansing, and they handed out summery executions as a means of controlling indigent populations. They even did some strategic bombing of England. But as a whole, the killings of civilians were tactical and meant to achieve local control of small areas. The mass killings were genocide and had little to do with winning of wars. They were racial cleansing pure and simple. Other than trying to choke off the Atlantic supply lines, Germany never really made much of an effort at winning the economic war. This is laid at the feet of their air planers. They never planed for a long strategic air campaign, and concentrated on tactical air to an almost total extent. This was addressed later in the war when the German strategic rocket forces were brought down upon England.
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Old December 15th, 2003, 06:21 AM
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Default Re: Military Buffs I need your help.

of course it was OUR land, they didnt believe in land ownership. Hawaii and Panama on the otherhand, those were definitly other peoples land that we just sort of took. California and Texas too, for that matter.

If history teaches us anything, its that might makes right. We need a warior culture akin to that of feudal Japan, but less isolationist. All this goodie-goodie stuff aint good for the empire.
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