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Originally Posted by bon69
Man this thread is TFF! Wow! seeing some of the paranoia on this thread gives me a business idea. Someone needs to open a Tin-Foil Designer Clothing & Accessory Store. There seems to be several potential customers on this thread alone..
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....and then the lamps went out, for the next half century.
From The Economist on the 100th anniversary of outbreak of The War of the World:
"AS NEW YEAR approached a century ago, most people in the West looked forward to 1914 with optimism. The hundred years since the Battle of Waterloo had not been entirely free of disaster—there had been a horrific civil war in America, some regional scraps in Asia, the Franco-Prussian war and the occasional colonial calamity. But continental peace had prevailed. Globalisation and new technology—the telephone, the steamship, the train—had knitted the world together. John Maynard Keynes has a wonderful image of a Londoner of the time, “sipping his morning tea in bed” and ordering “the various products of the whole earth” to his door, much as he might today from Amazon—and regarding this state of affairs as “normal, certain and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement”. The Londoner might well have had by his bedside table a copy of Norman Angell’s “The Great Illusion”, which laid out the argument that Europe’s economies were so integrated that war was futile...."
Complacency ruled...then and now...
And what better historic parallel to the "Iranian nuke agreement" than Kellogg-Briand (1928)?
I know, I know, that was olden times for people who believe the start of history was their birthdate. To everyone else, it was just an augenblick.
Umm...wow.
just...wow!
