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From a blog I frequent... interesting parallel, perhaps, especially if
you compare the Iran-Iraq war and the invasion of Kuwait with Hitler's
pre-1939 maneuvering?


If, in 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt would have invaded Germany, captured
Hitler, neutralized the Nazi party, and dismantled the standing
military, thus saving europe from the ravages of war, genocide, and
crimes against humanity, then the United States would have been
condemned in shame by the world as an imperialist nation of pre-emptive
aggressors, and FDR would have been cast out of office in the subsequent
election.


So what?

In 1937 Germany was the most populous nation in Western Europe, the
most technologically advanced continent. Germany had the potential
to do eaxctly what Hitler did.

In 2002 Iraq had nowhere near that potential, indeed even in 1991
Iraq had no where near that potential.

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