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From: roy@eisx.UUCP (Steve Rojak)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Peace in the Middle East
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 18:13:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 18:13:52 1984
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  |Very stupid of the US to get out of Germany, they just could have hold[sic]
  |it in 1945.

If you want a real shocker, we could have done better than that, from a power
point of view.

Germany actually surrendered to the West about a week before she surrendered
to the Russians.  We could have very easily used the Wehrmacht against the
SU.  At least it would have been easy as far as getting the Germans to
cooperate; whether our own country would have stood for it is another matter.
But there has been something out-to-lunch about our foreign policy since
1910.  We accuse the Russians of double-dealing and reneging on treaties.
Every nation-state with any sense does this.  But we want the world to like
us, or what?  They don't anyway.  The purpose of a foreign policy is to
carry out the ends of the nation.  These are necessary acquisitive and
detrimental to the ends of some of the other nations.

We have been historically been more interested in maintaining the status
quo at home than in making over the world so that we all had greater
opportunity.

Flame away, folks.
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