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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
If the US hadn't entered and help halt Germany's advance WW1 might have never ended. We are talking about the US occupying Iraq for a few years like it is the greatest tragedy in history. You think that Germany would have peacefully ruled Europe especially with Russia looming on the Eastern front?
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germany was on the cusp of winning the war when we got in. it's why they had once again said all shipping was a target; they figured they'd win out before we could get over there.
my only point was the peace that was forced on germany after that war was what eventually lead to ww2. i've done more studying on ww1, germany was made out to be the bad guy-but the start of that war, and the build up...well, i don't think germany was the only one at fault for that war.
i don't think us invading iraq was the greatest tragedy in history-there's a lot of history, and a lot of tragedy.
but i do think that it was a tremendous mistake. ill advised, ill planned, poorly waged, and took too much away from afganistan.