On Apr 21, 11:38*am, samsloan wrote:
On Apr 21, 7:53 am, wrote:

* Hmmm, so Larry would have preferred that Germany won World War I.
Interesting.

Larry Parr has a valid and interesting point. If Germany had won World
War I, Hitler would never have risen to power and World War II might
not have happened.

And if pigs had wings, they'd live in trees, Sam.

Parr does not have "a valid and interesting point"; he is merely
engaging in armchair speculation, idly fantasizing about a supposed
paradise in an imaginary universe.
I'd like to see you and Parr present these arguments to, say, the
French government in 1914, telling them "You must allow the Germans to
overrun your country, so that they won't bother to try it again in
1940, and so that the Bolsheviks won't come to power in Russia." Or
tell President Wilson "You must support the authoritarian,
militaristic Germans rather than your more democratic British cousins,
because otherwise there will be Russian missiles in Cuba in 1962."

There were plenty of ways to thwart Hitler before 1939 that did not
involve surrendering to Kaiser Bill in 1914.

If all those Americans had not died fighting in France, Sam Sloan
might never have risen to power.

What power would that be, Sam?