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Entry: The Good War Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_good_war#20468 Post contents: In my humbled opinion[s], Eric von Ludendorff was probably the most "pivotal" & "seminal" man in all of human history....certainly, the most "influential" man of the 20th Cent. He dimissed the Kaiser well before the terminations, post-Versailles, of ALL the remaining Dynasties & Empires. He introduced and "sustained" both Lenin(& his entire gang) and Hitler(same) to the world stage, so to speak. Now this Ludendorff boy was up to "something". Those volks that "unlock" Ludendorff will do themselves & others "a world of good". Doctor John, the strength of your "medicine" might benefit from closer attentions to German Idealism, the Congress of Berlin & a simple appreciation of the "tensions" between continental(land) powers & off-shore maritime powers....in many ways, Napolean finished off the French for good, another Latin Roman Empire bites the dust...which was quickly replaced by those Germans(Fichte & Hegel) that Nappy had "everything" to do with getting started in the first place. Finally, cut the Christendom crap(especially if you are genuinely "troubled" by the "reformation-counterreformation)....Belloc's got too much of your tonque. Neither you or nor he could establish that any such thing ever existed, except in historical "name" or reference.(see Tomaz Mastnak's "Crusading Peace") Lastly, two tomes that you might find helpful for refining your deep gazes into the past & steely stares into the future: 1) "Three New Deals", Wolfgang Shivelbusch. 2)"War & the Rise of the State", Bruce Porter. Sent at: 2008 11 23