Re: [ImmoderateHeroQuest] Digest Number 489

From: David Boatright <dcboatright_at_zItdOu2pyrZGP-ubqUJqadsNw_gJP0S8eCWo_1lq1ee1l67ffQdSiTtHdOyR9AxR>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:26:52 -0500


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> > "Mark Galeotti" <hia15_at_iyk0AvRStYLrvojkcL9YvaokmfqYJNxNJw1BkHosnOwcNwxVMhVAerQXHVYMVN39CX8CtM7xqp2OyuiQ.yahoo.invalid>
> >Might we not feel a little uncomfortable if someone said 'hey, look
> >at the Teutonic Knights, look at Bismarck, look at Hitler -- of
> >_course_ the Germans still want to conquer Eastern Europe'? I would
> >simply counsel against regarding history as such a clear and linear
> >predictor of future policy. A factor, sure, but not always the
> >deciding one -- especially when there is no evidence to support such
> >a historicist line.

Well the Germans (and the French) are still at it. The EU is nothing more than an attempt to conquer Europe by another means.

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