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You can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb it into peace. (Original Post) GreatGazoo Aug 2015 OP
Just to play devil's advocate: we did bomb the hell out of the nazi's - and got some peace...nt jonno99 Aug 2015 #1
war methods Roy Rolling Aug 2015 #3
Very true. nt jonno99 Aug 2015 #4
Yes, the two most powerful armies facing each other for the next 45 years.... happyslug Aug 2015 #6
we fought two world wars to keep Germany from running Europe...who runs Europe now? yurbud Aug 2015 #7
Michael Franti is the MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST OF OUR TIME...... ghostsinthemachine Aug 2015 #2
"Bombs kill terrorists. Education kills terrorism. " jtuck004 Aug 2015 #5

Roy Rolling

(6,933 posts)
3. war methods
Fri Aug 7, 2015, 01:48 PM
Aug 2015

Guerilla warfare and terrorism are different than an entire country mobilized to wage war. You can bomb buildings, but you cannot bomb ideologies.

No?

 

happyslug

(14,779 posts)
6. Yes, the two most powerful armies facing each other for the next 45 years....
Fri Aug 7, 2015, 04:11 PM
Aug 2015

European peace was achieved and maintained by having two alliances willing to go to war with each other. Wars in Europe only restarted with the collapse of that system Yugoslavia and the Ukraine are two examples of the break down).

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
7. we fought two world wars to keep Germany from running Europe...who runs Europe now?
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 01:04 PM
Aug 2015

That the Nazis were truly bad guys was incidental to our reasons to be in the war.

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
2. Michael Franti is the MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST OF OUR TIME......
Fri Aug 7, 2015, 01:45 PM
Aug 2015

The only artist I ever saw that hit me lie Bob Marley did. Like a prophet, a shaman, a seer, a guru all wrapped up in one person, bigger than the music.




Time To Go Home.

Those who start wars, never fight them
those who fight wars, never like them
Those who write laws
can never recite them
and those of us who just fight laws
live and die them..

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
5. "Bombs kill terrorists. Education kills terrorism. "
Fri Aug 7, 2015, 03:38 PM
Aug 2015

iirc a young woman, victim of a terrorist attack, spoke those words in the white house.

What was her name?

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