tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post806248927355155511..comments2024-03-28T07:47:50.902-07:00Comments on Roads to the Great War: Verdun Twenty Years Later: A Doomed Reconciliationsnielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631473280484584330noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-12610983530104245292016-10-20T04:05:37.057-07:002016-10-20T04:05:37.057-07:00It was more than France that thought isolationism ...It was more than France that thought isolationism and ignoring Germany's building of the Third Reich would prevent war... 'America first'? And it is why I will always think of the World Wars as one continuation with a brief armistice for a failed League of Nations and just peace.David John Hastiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07668499102291275170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-61892964668215510012016-09-12T13:16:28.935-07:002016-09-12T13:16:28.935-07:00What an interesting--but sad--piece of history... ...What an interesting--but sad--piece of history... D. BeerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-28565295303580157692016-09-12T12:48:52.412-07:002016-09-12T12:48:52.412-07:00I think the "Anciens Combattants" believ...I think the "Anciens Combattants" believed that their German counterparts, who had suffered as they had in the World War, would come to the same conclusions about peace as they did. The French veterans did not count on the ability of Hitler to play on German resentment of losing, and the Versailles Treaty, since that resentment was outside of their experience. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-74362492840139196382016-09-12T11:39:31.761-07:002016-09-12T11:39:31.761-07:00Interesting idea: isolationism a form of self-dec...Interesting idea: isolationism a form of self-deception!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com