If 45 million dead is any victory, it sure seems of the Pyrrhic variety. --- On Mon, 8/4/08, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Al Pacacino To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 3:14 AM >>>Baker argues that fighting WWII militarily was counterproductive and exactly the wrong thing to do. So he agrees with Pat Buchanan, author of _Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World_, I agree with Paul. Woulda-coulda-shoulda is a chump's game. Sorta like: how would Manius Aquillius have fared if he had neutron howitzers and cyborg warriors while fighting Mithridates VI of Pontus at Protostachium? ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html