Re: The President's Daughter by Nan Britton

On Apr 21, 11:10=A0am, ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Apr 21, 11:38=A0am, samsloan <samhsl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > On Apr 21, 7:53 am, ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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> > > =A0 Hmmm, so Larry would have preferred that Germany won World War
I.
> > > Interesting.
>
> > Larry Parr has a valid and interesting point. If Germany had won World
> > War I, Hitler would never have risen to power and World War II might
> > not have happened.
>
> =A0 And if pigs had wings, they'd live in trees, Sam.
>
> =A0 Parr does not have "a valid and interesting point"; he is merely
> engaging in armchair speculation, idly fantasizing about a supposed
> paradise in an imaginary universe.
> =A0 I'd like to see you and Parr present these arguments to, say, the
> French government in 1914, telling them "You must allow the Germans to
> overrun your country, so that they won't bother to try it again in
> 1940, and so that the Bolsheviks won't come to power in Russia." Or
> tell President Wilson "You must sup****t the authoritarian,
> militaristic Germans rather than your more democratic British cousins,
> because otherwise there will be Russian missiles in Cuba in 1962."
>
> =A0 There were plenty of ways to thwart Hitler before 1939 that did not
> involve surrendering to Kaiser Bill in 1914.




> > If all those Americans had not died fighting in France, Sam Sloan
> > might never have risen to power.
>
> =A0 What power would that be, Sam?

LOL
Good one TK!