I assume you distance yourself from your attack on Irak and do not support your own regime on that matter.
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Check my posts back in 2003. I was against going into Iraq and believed then (as I do now) that we should have focused on Afghanistan, for which we had causus belli in the form of non-cooperation on the capture of Bin Laden, responsible for the WTC atrocities. Afghanistan gave tacit, material support to an attack on the US.
Sudentland and South Ossetia can not be compared. SO has a _____far____ larger population of Russians that wants to be free from Georgia than was the case in Sudentlend.
They can't be compared? Let's look at the facts. The Ossetians and Russians cite 'Georgiafication' - as do many in this thread. The Sudetenland contained 3 million Germans - 98% of which voted for the Nazis in the Czech elections of 1938. The Sudetenland had more Nazi party members than anywhere in the Reich at nearly twice the average. They saw themselves as German.
The Czechs broke their promise to make their newly-established country multinational, modelled after Switzerland. Instead, they set out on a policy of Czechization, conducted as follows:
1.Against the German language and culture by closing down Germanschools and by declaring Czech the only official language to be used in all communications with the authorities;
2. by ousting Germans from civil service jobs and in enterprises owned and controlled by the government;
3. by curbing the German economy and taking over German firms into Czech ownership;
4. by restricting the powers of local government in the German-speaking towns and districts.Given that the Sudetenland was exclusively German, I think the parallels with Ossetia are remarkable. By yours and the logic of others in this thread, Hitler was right. Here's his mandate and the response of the international community at the time:
"The Nazis, together with their Sudeten German allies, demanded incorporation of the region into Nazi Germany to escape "oppression", in fact to destroy the Czechoslovak state. While the Czechoslovak government mobilized its troops, the Western powers urged it to comply with Germany believing that they could prevent or postpone a general war by appeasing Hitler."Has a familiar ring to it, somehow?
