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Agree with you about World War I.

The thing that has always seemed remarkable to me is that a repeat of World War I - "we have to go to war now, old chap - there is no 'off' swithch to our mobilization plan" didn't happen during the "Cold War" [meaning mostly brown, black, and yellow people died].

I agree about World War II as well - although I think it could have been prevented by the French had they not been stabbed in the back by their own right wing, and had they developed a set of testicles large enough to operate without the blessing of the King.

I think, however, that you should put down the crack pipe before you say "in WW2 we outta continued and fought against Stalin." That may sound really good in theory, but by 1945 Uncle Joe had some pretty formidable forces at his disposal, and most of what he was expending in the field was produced domestically. Not really sure the US/UK had the military might to do it, and there's that whole inconvenient thing about democracies - you'd have to sell the people on it, and I don't think the people on either side of the Atlantic would have bought it.

Although, at least in theory - such a thing MIGHT have been possible if the elections of 1945 had gone differently. Truman is quoted in the Congressional Record as suggesting from the floor of the Senate that the U.S. should support the Soviets as long as the Nazis were winning, but support the Nazis if it looked like the Soviets were winning.

Not sure I agree on Korea either. North Korea's invasion of the south was as clear an act of agression as anything Saddam ever contemplated. The mistake was in getting greedy - in trying to go all the way to the Chinese border.

I will avoid making any remarks about sheep or the Malvinas, just because I'm a nice guy, and I'm grateful that it did not become necessary for the United States to enter the conflict.