Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: We need the arms race (well, not quite...) Message-ID: <966@ihuxp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 22:37:26 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxp.966 Posted: Wed Jan 16 22:37:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:48:20 EST References: <734@loral.UUCP> <43000005@rna.UUCP> <825@watdcsu.UUCP> <984@hou3c.UUCP> <831@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 29 > In article <984@hou3c.UUCP> ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) writes: > >The last time was the 100 year period from the Conference of Vienna to > >WWI. That peace was ended when people of unexceptional abilities came > >to power simultaneously. > > Whom was it peace to? I thought the French and the Germans had at > least two wars during that period. After all, wasn't that why they > wanted to start WWI in the first place, to get even? We are living in > a period of relative peace, I suppose with only about ten or so small > wars involving two or three countries. Herb Chong... Ken, I haven't seen you stick your foot in your mouth this far in quite a while. Without any reference books to reference... The Sino-Japanese War Spanish-American War Boxer Rebbellion Boer War All of the German-French conflicts under Bizmark Mexican-American War That hits all of the continents except Antartica, and those are the first one's off the top of my head. This isn't even worth considering as an issue, but with a little work... I could probably list a hundred various conflicts Where's that old .sig about foot-in-mouth disease?