posted on September 25, 2001 10:41:06 PM
That's right jt. Shultz's position was taken after several embassy bombings and the Marines were bombed in Beruit.
"The Swiss, whom HJW seems to admire have also been called to account about the many accounts they accepted from the Third Reich during WWII and we know who those monies and goods belonged to, don't we Helen?"
Zilvy,
Where did I say anything about Switzerland? I posted an article in which Switzerland was mentioned.
I agreed with the anti-war position of the author of that article.
But you knew that...didn't you Zilvy?
posted on September 26, 2001 09:04:58 AMhjwI agreed with the anti-war position of the author of that article
Avoiding war can be noble, it could also be a black mark on a country's history too.
In 1939 the British told Germany that unless they gave word that they were pulling out of Poland the British would consider themselves at war with German.
The Swiss didn't feel it was any of their business.
posted on September 26, 2001 09:54:16 AM
Antiquary said:
"From earliest times, each new technological invention or strategy which gave an opposing group an advantage produced terror until it gradually became conventional."
So true, and I'd been thinking lately about Greek fire. But it seems different now. Maybe it seemed different then to them also. I dunno.
In yet another Orwellian twist, Ari Fleischer says that the Chechnyan rebels are "terrorists." That old war horse, White House correspondant Helen Thomas, asked him when that happened... They used to be "freedom fighters" she said, when did they become "terrorists." They've always been terrorists, Fleischer blandly informed her.
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