From: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: There he goes again..
Keywords: Astute Geopolitical Grasp!  Yow!
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:13:22 GMT
Organization: Just Some Guy

(apologies for trimming the article excessively, but I am keeping the original
 in case anyone claims my quoting is "out of context")

In article <1992Aug23.173136.484@cbnewse.cb.att.com> harryo@cbnewse.cb.att.com (harold.r.holm) writes:
>In article <Phil_Warburton.0ank@grace.UUCP>, Phil_Warburton@grace.UUCP (Phil Warburton) writes:
>> (axed)
>
>YOU Clinton PEOPLE  be reminded of something....and I should let the Republican
>National Committee know of this...every time a Democratic *administration*
>has been *re-elected* or elected to serve more than one full term in 
>this century, the country has been embroiled in a multi-year or massive
>casualty WAR.  Starting with the inept Woodrow Wilson, before even the
>first twenty years had passed.  As Winston Churchill noted, involve-
>ment by the U.S. in that conflict was a prime catalyst for all the 
>others that have followed.  How illustrative of what Democrats do 
>best (and do worst for the country) in the long run.  That is the
>Despicable Heritage of the Democratic Party. 

	I'm sorry, I seem to be missing something here.  Is this the old
classic "Correlation implies causation," or more the "Every left-handed
person in the 18th century died, so left-handedness is responsible for
death" school of statistics?

	Are you SERIOUSLY IMPLYING that World War I was Wilson's fault?
That Roosevelt caused WWII?  That Harry Truman begat the Korean Police
Action?  The last of these may actually have some degree of merit.  I am
no expert in geopolitics myself.  But to say that electing Democrats to the
Presidency is DIRECTLY RELATED to the World Wars is patently absurd.  Ol'
Winston may have correctly noted the catalyst, but to blame WOODROW WILSON
for WORLD WAR II is an inferential error of the highest order.

	I suppose I should trot out sentiments like, "Oh, so Taft/T. Roosevelt
would have retained an isolationist stance and America would have been much
better off (despite Roosevelt's penchant for militarism, but I digress)" or
"Geez, I never thought of that!  Of course it was the evil Democrat Wilson
who drafted the original Treaty of Versailles and used the League of Nations
as a smokescreen for his true intentions of causing the rise of fascism in
Europe," or even "If we had just nuked China like MacArthur said, we
wouldn't have had any problems with Korea OR Vietnam."  However, this
statement seems too much like bait even for alt.rush-limbaugh.

>
>                                                     H.R. Holm
>*comment my own only, standard
>disclaimers; replies to newsgroups only*
>                                           ********************************
>                                           ACT UP......GROW up!!!!!
>                                           Your actions make me THROW UP!!!
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