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Originally posted by ACause,
You name it...it's been resolved by force...the Revolutionary War,...Great Britain was never going to release the colonies thru diplomacy.....it took years of War to do that....Slavery..diplomacy failed to rid us of it..it took the Civil War...WW1....Wilson thought he could use diplomacy but it failed as the Japanese walked out after their initial wars of conquest....WW2...Chamberlain thought he could use diplomacy to hold back Hitler...etc.etc...history is resplendent with actions that were only resolved thru the use of force. So I ask...is diplomacy at best a stopgap measure for situations where force will be used at some point? |
Exactly. Why did the white man ever use diplomacy with the pesky redskins? He should have honestly and forthrightly killed every Indian man, woman and child, or enslaved them so that the continent could be free for the expansion of the real owners, white Americans...
(Irony)
Actually, that is what the Spanish did and it resulted in two things: A great deal of wealth for the Spanish crown and the overlord class, and a long-standing issue of corruption and injustice in Spanish America. Not to mention the misery of the stepped-on Indians, but who cares? The issues were resolved by force.