> поразительное, все таки, зрелище, как либертарианцы цитируют любую > глупость, если только она подтверждает существующие убеждения
Go learn some history, so YOU wouldn't look like an idiot. The author you so pleasantly debunked with your ad hominem was absolutely correct in his depiction of the 100-year war. 30 years war was no different - even the officers were free to travel to the enemy countries (as anyone who read The Three Musketeers would surely know).
Besides, you may want to learn the difference between monarchist wars (which were nothing more than internal family quarrels between blood relatives - and didn't put much strain on the mere peons) and the democratic total warfare, which legitimizes the wholesale slaughter of non-combatants on the theory that people are directing their government and so are culpable in its actions.
Oh, and Napoleon is the first "true" democratic head of state - he was one of the leading political and military leaders of French Republic, and was a strong supporter of Jacobin fraction during the Revolution. He, essentially, did was Hitler did later - came to the power through democratic political maneuvering, and then used an emergency (assassination attempt in case of Napoleon, Reichstag fire in case of Hitler) to make himself an absolute ruler. And then proceeded to engage in aggressive wars against neighbors. These wars weren't financed by loans, not at all, but by the simple looting of the homeland population.
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Date: 2008-02-29 08:56 am (UTC)> глупость, если только она подтверждает существующие убеждения
Go learn some history, so YOU wouldn't look like an idiot. The author you so pleasantly debunked with your ad hominem was absolutely correct in his depiction of the 100-year war. 30 years war was no different - even the officers were free to travel to the enemy countries (as anyone who read The Three Musketeers would surely know).
Besides, you may want to learn the difference between monarchist wars (which were nothing more than internal family quarrels between blood relatives - and didn't put much strain on the mere peons) and the democratic total warfare, which legitimizes the wholesale slaughter of non-combatants on the theory that people are directing their government and so are culpable in its actions.
Oh, and Napoleon is the first "true" democratic head of state - he was one of the leading political and military leaders of French Republic, and was a strong supporter of Jacobin fraction during the Revolution. He, essentially, did was Hitler did later - came to the power through democratic political maneuvering, and then used an emergency (assassination attempt in case of Napoleon, Reichstag fire in case of Hitler) to make himself an absolute ruler. And then proceeded to engage in aggressive wars against neighbors. These wars weren't financed by loans, not at all, but by the simple looting of the homeland population.