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Article: Letters.(OPINION)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 14, 2003
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War in Iraq: Is the 'nearest right' near enough?
Regarding his Feb. 12 opinion column "In war, what is the 'nearest right'?": John Hughes writes eloquently of the British experience during World War II. His observation that German aggression seemed so clear-cut couldn't be more accurate.
German troops occupied the Rhineland in 1936. In 1938, Germany forced an Anschluss (expansion of Germany) into Austria. In 1938, Adolf Hitler demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland. He got that at Munich, and some months later took all of Czechoslovakia. The next step for Hitler was to invade Poland in 1939.
Mr. Hughes suggests that the "nearest right" now ...