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Originally Posted by Mooncricket
This is an EXCELLENT essay . Well thought out and presented.
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I really, really agree with you. Do you know who wrote it? My only concern with it is that it needs to be corected in some respects before I would forward it to others because, while the points are very well made and most of the facts about which I have knowledge seem correct, there are many obvious factual errors that the liberal detractors would seize on to unfairly criticize the conclusions (i.e., see and attack the trees not the forest).
* Ireland was not an ally, but remained neutral throughout WWII.
* China was a very important ally. It tied down much of Japan's ground forces.
* Stalinist Russia, while an ally, was responsible for more human death than even Hitler's Germany was.
* If the comment that "Belgium surrendered
on one day means that it surrender
in one day, not true. The Germans invaded Belgium (along with Lux, Fr, and Neth) on May 10th. The Krauts enterted Brussels on May 17, and King Leoppold surrendered unconditionally on May 28.
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Russia did not lose "something like 24,000,000 people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone." Russia lost about that many people in the entire war period from 1941-45 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties ), most due to the Nazis, but many due to Stalin's own purges and pograms. About 1M troops on both sides died in the siege of Stalingrad, which had a population of about 300K. If everyone in Stalingrad died (they didn't), that would still equal only 1.3M, and there's no way 22.7M people died in the siege of Moscow. Trust me.
* "WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action." Pretty sure that the MIAs have been included in the 407K dead number by now.
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I thought the logic of the essay was very good, but, unless the author corrects these kinds of obvious errors, the piece's credibility will suffer - people will think why trust the logic if you can't trust the facts?