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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
whether you like the approach or not, that is the reality of it. confronting evil is at the root of a just war. if western europe hadn't appeased hitler when he annexed the sudetenland and if the US hadn't been fixated in an isolationist mode... we might have saved millions of souls. i think the lessoned learned is clear: confrontation is the ONLY way to deal with evil in the world.
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What?
I can't begin to understand that paragraph - beyond it being a blanket justification for war on the grounds of "evil". Probably it's this fantasy concept of evil that completely negates any possible rationalization you might have been attempting. But even when I simply switch "evil" to "massively corrupt, power hungry delusion" it still seems like you missed something rather obvious:
If Western Europe and the U.S. had worked diplomatically and with sanctions (as opposed to fully endorsing Nazi Germany through strong business arrangements), we could have saved millions of souls.
Confrontation only became a necessity when Nazi Germany not only had free reign (due to the lack of concern for peoples who had no financial benefit to Western Europe and the U.S.) but SUPPORT via mutual corporate involvement.
And so then I realize that your conclusion is WAY off-base. Massively corrupt, power hungry delusion is best dealt with by people who are not themselves seriously corrupt and power hungry. None of the players are evil - specifically because none of the players are good.