The issue is less about who deserves the credit for winning the war and who paid the COSTS of the war And it obviously rubs people the wrong way to say that the people who suffered least were best placed to make an objective judgment of how to pursue justice
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You can say that depopulating Germany would be bad, and deindustrializing Germany would be bad, and all manner of things would be bad, without saying that the enormously conciliatory terms of the Marshall Plan were the best of all possible worlds
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I quite often say the South didn't suffer nearly enough in the aftermath of the US Civil War but the goal, in and of itself, isn't suffering The point isn't how many slaveowners lived or died, it's that the former slaves *never got their forty acres and a mule*
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