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- From: PA142548@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Bazooka for sale!
- Message-ID: <PA142548.899.728170543@utkvm1.utk.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:35:43 GMT
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- In article <1k55gfINNq2@zikzak.apana.org.au> speednut@zikzak.apana.org.au (Mark Jose) writes:
- >>As for your Hitler comment, that's nonsensical at best. Are you saying
- that>>the Jews were better off for having died in misery WITHOUT much of a
- fight?>>I think logic and history would indicate that FEWER of them would
- have died>>had they been able to put up a fight to enable more of the rest
- to survive.>
- >Don't be silly. Read what I said! Putting faith in your government will no
- >more cause your demise than not doing so by arming yo
- >that even if the Jews were fully armed, they would still not have been
- >able to withstand the German assault.
-
- How do you know that?
-
- >
- >Whether your "logic and history" can prove they may have survived is very
- >dubious. Unless well trained I can't see how they could possibly fight off
- >battle hardened soldiers and tanks.
-
- I submit to you the Viet Cong Guerillas and the Mujadeen Guerillas as
- counterexamples.. Both booted massive mechanized, trained, disciplied
- armies from their homelands.
-
- They relied chiefly on homemade explosives and light rifles.
-
- >>All those Iraqis SURRENDERED in large part. If we'd been like the nazis,
- >>they wouldn't have gone home again the way they did.
- >
- >And what of the 200,000 that died? Did they not believe that there
- >government would support them? Did they not put their trust in their
- >weapons to stop them being killed? Yes. What good did it do them when
- >the "invading power" has better weaponry. I am sure if the US had
- >wanted to eradicate the Iraqis, they could have done so whether the
- >Iraqis had guns or not. See my point?
-
- I see your point, but it is invalid. See the above counter example.
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