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A hundred years ago, we decided to start going over there, over there

By adamg on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 10:11am
World War I recruitment poster

Today's the 100th anniversary of the formal American declaration of war against Germany. Within days, the National Guard began patrols of the Boston waterfront to guard against German spies - Boston being a key Atlantic port, of course.

Recruitment poster from the BPL collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.

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By theszak on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 11:30am.

Of note... Collectivité d'Outre-mer de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon remain French territory in North America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

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By Turtlegeuse on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 4:48pm.

Not sure if traitorous or serendipitous, but I just read this while eating a big piece of sweet delicious German chocolate cake. I swear I didn't enjoy it.

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By Ron Newman on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 11:19pm.

perhaps the outcome and resulting peace treaty would have been more even-handed, and the subsequent horrors of Nazism avoided?

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By theszak on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 11:36pm.

>"Neutrality, however, turned out to be difficult to define and maintain. The dilemma was how to remain neutral without inflicting serious damage on the American economy https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/world-war-i/essays/world-war-i

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By perruptor on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 7:36am.

I believe the best assessment of WWI, and of war in general, was provided by General Smedley Butler, in his brutally honest War is a Racket. It's not a long book, and it's free to read. During his life, Butler was the most-decorated Marine in history. There is no one who knows war better than he did, and nothing much has happened since his death that would have changed his mind.

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By theszak on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 11:41am.

War may serve an evolutionary purpose like disease. War controls populations.

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By Michael on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 12:20pm.

Say it again!

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By perruptor on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 3:38pm.

Even World War III 'could not stop rising population'
A planet-wide conflict that claimed as many lives as the first two world wars combined would hardly make any difference to the world's exploding population, according to a study.

Population growth is so out of control that even stringent restrictions on childbirth, disastrous pandemics or a third world war would not make it manageable by the turn of the next century, researchers claim.

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By theszak on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 7:45pm.

Sociobiology, The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson
https://books.google.com/books?id=v7lV9tz8fXAC&printsec=frontcover

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