[Discuss] Tom's request for War on EC

[James]

David Kester wrote:
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> On 30/10/2007, *James* <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com 
> <mailto:TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com>> wrote:
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>     Show me one example in history were someone was shamed for having an
>     alliance.
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> According to the Stephen Bradshaw Fay Thesis, Germany in 1914 did 
> everything it could to avoid war and entered only regretfully.  It's a 
> viewpoint well respected and agreed with by many in the academic 
> community.
>

Regretfully entering a war and being shamed for having an alliance are 
two different things.  I don't see the correspondence.  And who is 
Stephen Bradshaw Fay?  I'm not doubting you, but I don't know him from 
the guy who bags my groceries at the super market.