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Don't quit your day job. The misbehaviour of the Kaiser was of much longer standing and much wider scope than any feud with George V or even Edward VII. For instance, he repeatedly tried to intrigue with the Japanese against the US, in order to gain naval bases in Mexico and South America. It was a reprise of that strategy (via the Zimmermann Telegram) that brought the US into the war.

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Martin Gilbert's book just now. You think poison gas, flame throwers, reprisals on Belgian and French civilians, unrestricted submarine warfare, isn't brutal? 15 million dead, roughly, a warmup for WWII.

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Are you stupid enough to think that if the dumbshit who was told to down the ball AT the goal line and still couldn't resist taking it in, that the idiots on the other team that were told to leave him alone would have actually let him stand there for more than even a second if he had been able to follow directions?

Be careful, those who win get to write history.

as I said, fueled his desire to run Europe - just expand to the rest of the world.

I merely point out that the familial relationship is oft ignored. Not the CAUSE, just ignored.

In once case, a German sub attacked a passenger ship. The ship managed to ram the sub. The Germans eventually got the captain and hanged him for piracy.

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Gilbert is British propagandist. Quite a lot of the so-called Belgian atrocities were fabricated. The shipping was attacked because it carried war supplies to the Allies. It is now acknowledged and proven that the Lusitania was carrying arms and ammuntion. The so-called reprisals against civilians, also know as collective punishment, were an accepted strategy, a very ancient one at that, to reduce the effectiveness of the the resistance movements. WW I was positively civilized by comparison to how wars were conducted previously.

Educational soap opera. It is fascinating.

--Winston

And not a single car crash, so far.

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Poison gas was civilized?

15 million dead was civilized?

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Completely cracked. You had a Kaiser Wilhelm teddy bear as a kid, did't you? 'Fess up.

My grandfather was on the Canadians' left wing at St Julien in April

1915, which was directly in the path of the German gas attack. He was in hospital for four months afterwards. However, he and the other Canadians got off easier than the French Territorials next to them--there was a captain in his battalion who was a chemist in civilian life, and when he recognized the green cloud as chlorine, he passed word for everybody to urinate on their handkerchiefs and breath through them. That wasn't much of a gas mask, but it saved a lot of lives.

After he got out of hospital, he got sent back to the front for another three years. Just a way they had back then.

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Yep- populations were just much bigger by then. Imagine if the medieval crowd had access to those kinds of war making resources- it would have been WAY worse. And quite a large portion of the military dead were squandered by idiotic leadership who had no clue. Old traditions die hard. There's no such thing as 'civilized' warfare, the whole process is an abomination.

There is nothing to be said in the face of barbarity. It took the razing of their countries, three generations of military occupation, and about 80 million lives, to finally civilize the Germans and Austrians.

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The British used gas too, just not very well. See British gas attacks in

. And the US had no qualms about using germ warefare against North Korean civilians in that war, if only experimentally. So you're going to have to think more obectively in your rabid hysteria against the Germans.

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Civilize or emasculate?

Rabid hysteria? Take your meds, Fred, you'll feel much better. Several times in this very boutique, I've lamented the moral damage done to our entire civilization by WWI and WWII.

Emile Verhaegen was a Belgian poet and socialist who had been an outspoken pacifist before 1914. In 1915, he published a book of patriotic poems "Dedicated, with emotion, to the man I used to be." The actions of the Germans right in his own country had forced him to abandon his humane convictions.

We should all feel that way, because tragically we aren't who we were either. That's not to say that the Victorians didn't have some pretty big blind spots, but morally, they were far readier to walk their talk than we are.

Unrestricted submarine warfare was considered so horrible by both sides that the Germans didn't decide to do it until February 1917 (partly because that's when they thought they had enough boats). That and the Zimmermann telegram were the two principal causes of the US entry into the war.

On December 7, 1941, US submarines were directed "to commence unrestricted submarine warfare against all Japanese merchant and military assets" (

). That was done without a ripple of opposition from the very same folks who fought the Germans and Austrians over the same issue just 24 years earlier.

It's all very sad, and we're all guilty of it--but the Germans, Japanese, and Russians did pioneer the path of barbarity that others followed. And, thank God, we haven't gone to their lengths--except of course against the unborn, where we've outstripped them all.

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Phil Hobbs

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Right and the massive US fire bombing of Tokyo that killed 1.5 million civilians.

Seriously, take a look at how the US handled handled its Indian problem, and the massive abuses of the all the European colonials in Africa and Asia. The Germans, Japanese, and Russians didn't pioneer anything. The Zimmerman telegram was just a propaganda ploy. The German machinations and activities in Mexico were well known long before the telegram incident. They were not a serious threat to the US there.

Civilize, unless you call closing down death camps to be emasculation.

I drive an Audi. We have several good customers in Germany that we work with. The Germans don't need to invade adjacent countries, or kill dozens of millions of people, to be great.

You might note that Germany lost both of the wars they started, at monstrous expense to themselves. They are the dominant economy in Europe. They are much better off now.

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You should read a little about the emergency evacuation near the end of the war of German civilians trying to cross the Baltic in subzero weather in ships obviously good for little more than carrying passengers. These ships were overloaded with passengers. The Russians attacked like a pack of wolves and sank them, knowing full well what they were doing.