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Entry: The Good War Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_good_war#20507 Post contents: "Poppycock." Mr. Capp, as I was repeating Mr. Zmirak's argument, where he said virtually the same thing about tyranny from the Urals to Gibraltar, know that your derision extends to him as well. "So much of historical review ends up being “what if?” That’s nonsense. History is what actually happened, not what might have been. That’s called FANTASY. So, historically, the USofA entered The Great War, Part II on the side of the British, the French, and the Soviet Union. The War managed to destroy Traditional Society even more than it had been already; some places in Europe have managed to “hang on” a little better than others, but, overall, Europe is now a Liberal Playground (as America has always been)." When determining whether an action in history was worth it, you need to know what the actors wished to prevent. If they saw something worse or far worse resulting from alternative courses of action, then even choices with truly regrettable consequences may have been the best available course. I am not saying that intervention the way the Allies intervened was correct. I do think that some form of intervention would have been better than absolute non-intervention. Sent at: 2008 11 23