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From: byker@do~rag.net
"SolomonW" wrote in message news:1b9z0izypgivr$
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:42:22 -0500, Byker wrote:
WWI didn't HAVE to end that way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9lWdkCxXYg
I agree with the video.
Prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK had been reading historian Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August", that traced how the Great Powers, simultaneously headstrong and yet unsure of themselves, slipped, stumbled,
and miscalculated their way into the Great War in 1914. The President was particularly haunted by a conversation between two German leaders after the
war had spiraled out of control. One, a former chancellor, asked the current chancellor, "How did it all happen?" The latter, who led his nation into
war, replied, "Ah, if only one knew."
As the Crisis darkened, Jack told Bobby that he wanted to avoid someone
someday writing a comparable "Missiles of October". As JFK recalled later,
"If this planet is ever ravaged by nuclear war...I do not want one of those survivors to ask another, 'How did it all happen?' and receive the
incredible reply, 'Ah, if only one knew.'"
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