> From: Damon Agretto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2004 2:28 AM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: RE: Winning the War on Terror > > > Andrew, > > Your allusion to Barbarossa is flawed. When the > Germans rolled into the Soviet Union, there were > plenty of people that welcomed them as liberators, not > the least of which were the Ukranians. Had the Germans > been less racist and didn't look at the Ukranians and > other ethnicities in the Soviet Union (which is FAR > MORE than just Russians) as being untermensch they > would have been able to push to the Urals and defeated > Stalin. With Ukranian manpower, food, and industry to > support them, it might very well have happened. Even > in 1944, when the Germans raised a Waffen-grenadier > division for Urkanians, they needed only 15,000 > volunteers; they got some 200,000. Even if after 3 > years of occupation and brutality Ukranians were > willing to do this, I think says a lot about Stalin's > regime. > > Your allusion, therefore, would work only if the US > managed to alienate the only really friendly faction > (the Kurds) that are currently in Iraq. So far that > hasn't happened AFAIK. > > Damon. >
I didn't know that about the Ukrainian division, interesting. My point was not so specific though. I meant more in terms of an invasion of another country turning out, in the long run, to not have been such a good idea. Andrew _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
