RE: How much security does $1 trillion buy?

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Respectfully, it's the height of sophistry to compare a two-bit,
third-rate, third-world dictator running a country that was in tatters
with Hitler and Germany; and by inference, Churchill to Bush.   

Alex

 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Brian Loe
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:11 PM
To: Drsolly
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] How much security does $1 trillion buy?

On 8/1/07, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:

> > Question: If England had went to war with Germany when Churchill 
> > FIRST called for it, way before England was attacked and just after 
> > Poland was invaded, would you complain about the costs of that war?
>
> Your grasp of history is breathtaking.  That's exactly when we did go 
> to war against Germany - a couple of days after the invasion of 
> Poland.  I thought everyone knew that. Evidently there's at least one 
> American who doesn't.

You are correct that I mispoke. However, I once again prove my ability
to admit a mistake.

You might consult your memory, however, and note that the just of what I
was saying is true.
> From Wikipedia:
Soon, though, his attention was drawn to the rise of Adolf Hitler and
the dangers of Germany's rearmament. For a time, he was a lone voice
calling on Britain to strengthen itself to counter the belligerence of
Germany.[25] Churchill was a fierce critic of Neville Chamberlain's
appeasement of Hitler, leading the wing of the Conservative Party that
opposed the Munich Agreement which Chamberlain famously declared to mean
"peace in our time".[26]

Had they acted sooner...


> > Did it
> > cost more to go to war later rather than sooner? Hard to say, but 
> > just in lives lost and and the damage done to London I would have to

> > believe Churchill was trying to save some money...
>
> Since yout assumption about when England went to war is historically 
> incorrect, your question doesn't arise.

But it does arise, if you had gone to war earlier...?

> If you want to be taken seriously as an analyst of events, you have to

> get those events correct.

I don't mind misspeaking every once in awhile. Everyone does it. I would
only be concerned with someone who misspeaks regularly and never admits
it. Only thing worse is one who snipes with BS and runs away, never to
respond to the BS again.
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