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Re: Whining from foreigners.

From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 16:55:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Whining from foreigners.


--- "Imre A. Szabo" <ias@sprintmail.com> wrote:
> > > Would have depended on the way the war ended, I
> > > guess. For a total defeat,
> > > yes. For some kind of peace treaty, probably
> not.
> > > Plus, the Germany of the
> > > Kaisers time was not the blood-thirsty regime of
> > > Hitler, though not exactly
> > > a democracy by our standrads, either.
> >
> > Wouldn't they have been stuck with reparations,
> > destruction of border fortifications, etc.? 
> That's a
> > loss of freedom.
> 
> Why?	Those are very temporary conditions.  Being
> forced to live under
> another countries laws (or under their authority) is
> a very different
> matter.

There's a difference between "loss of freedom" and
"loss of all freedom".	

John

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