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Skriven 2006-06-05 11:52:00 av Robert E Starr JR (2254.babylon5)
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"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:46:11 +0000 (UTC), "Dennis \(Icarus\)"
> <ala_dir_diver@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Iain Rae" <iainr@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
> >news:e5hin3$h72$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk...
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> >> >>>
> >> >>> Sadly, the Peter Principle holds as true today as it did when the
book
> >> >>> was written, which is why we're in such a mess. They're powerful,
> >> >>> ambitious.... and incompetent.
> >> >> Sometimes, competent is worse.  RE: Hitler before 1942, Stalin..
> >> >
> >> > I'd say 1941 - the attack against the Soviet Union, the desire to
take
> >> > political objectives (Leningrad, Stalingrad) instead of a more
valuable
> >> > strategic objective (Moscow), and the declaration of war against the
US.
> >> No, I think earlier than that. Letting the B.E.F. escape in 1940 or not
> >> making peace with Britain afterwards was probably worse.
> >
> >I dont think it'dve been possible for Hitler to make peace with Britian
> >after Dunkirk.
>
> I read not long ago that things were very much on the edge when
> Churchill took office -- the cabinet debated seriously whether to sue
> for peace before deciding to fight on to the end.

I'd like to see that.
Or could this be it?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0300084668/104-3658119-6587912


>
> >Oh yeah, I could add that bombing cities instead of RAF airfields was a
> >pretty big mistake as well.
>
> And read somewhere else that they were days away from putting the RAF
> out of action when Hitler turned on London. Take out the RAF, then
> take out industry and the navy while building an invasion fleet . . .

Exactly - IIRC a German bomber crew got lost, bombed London, the RAF then
bombs Berlin in retaliation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Bombing_During_World_War_II

>
> OTOH, Hitler apparently regretted the deal with Chamberlain because it
> gave Britian time to rearm.

I do recall that Hitler wasn't fond of Chamberlain because "he's spoiled my
entry into Prague"
(carefully checking the spelllikg of Prague s as to not invoke the
nitpicking of Amy) ;-)

>
> -- 
> Josh
>
> "I'm not going to play like I've been a person who's spent hours involved
with foreign policy.
> I am who I am." - George W. Bush
>
>

Dennis
                                                    
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