pbrower2a
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« on: February 14, 2009, 01:50:32 AM » |
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It was the last gasp of absolute monarchs who believed that any insult to their purported honor had to be met with war.
It may have been inevitable, but it certainly wasn't necessary. I can only imagine what the Romanovs thought as they were herded to a cellar to be shot. I can only imagine what Wilhelm II thought as he fled to Holland. I can only imagine how Austro-Hungarian leadership thought as it saw its own empire collapse.
Even if it were inevitable it should have been stopped when it became a futile effort for both sides. At least one country, the United States, could long have served as an honest broker of a settlement.
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