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Yes it would. The Syrian government ordered an attack on American military personel. That's casus belli in and of itself. As far as targets go, it doesn't get any more legitimate. The routine anti-Israel rant aside; what was the point of this? Except they expected the $0.05 "payback" that...

But the targets would still be legitimate, and it's a far cry from carpet-bombing Damascus, or destroying the airport, cutting hundreds of thousands off from supplies. It's certainly a disproportional response. That's the point, cf. the "....we come back with total disaster"-part. But it would...

It very much depends on what KIND of disproportionate response we're talking about. The "plan" to destroy the airport was a deliberate throw-off (and actually a waste of everyone's time; Bartlett's as well as their own), because they knew he wasn't going to agree to it - so they once again...

Despite all the flaws of America at the time (segregation, for instance), totalitarianism has always had a very, very hard time in America. Yes, there were totalitarian movements, like the nazi, communist and socialist parties, but I think it's telling that even during the heights of the...

I have to say that I find myself in agreement with "Pres. Bartlett" in the West Wing episode "A proportional response": That is, of course, until he chickened out and let Leo and his generals cajole him into doling out a $0.05 slap on the wrist for a $50 crime.

There are some, yours truly included, who see Bush as a good president. Iraq was avoidable, Afghanistan was not. The recession, however, was not tied specifically to Bush doing/not doing anything, as has been said above.

I'm subscribed! :) A good dystopia is in the making, it seems. Western Civilization has been butterflied away - let's see what happens next! Oh, and I couldn't help but think of the Halleluja-choir from "The Messiah" when I read the headline ;) My only concern, is that you seem to be starting a...

An even stronger reaction than OTL, maybe...

Pallywood never stops working.... As to the question in the title: As other posters have pointed out, Jews would not be faring much better in Arab countries TTL than OTL. The cause is, as has also been mentioned, the rise of nationalism. This caused problems for minorities whereever it...

I agree - we DO need to make sure that Germany can never again do what it did for the past 70 years. That's not what I'm protesting. I'm fully in favor of German territory changing hands, but NOT in favor of ethnic cleansing or mass starvation of the German people (which would probably also...

Fourth question: And how do you keep the crew from burning up...literally

I don't think it's possible, to be honest. The Western Allies would keep their word to Stalin, and Eastern Europe be consigned to darkness for another 45 years anyway.

A transformer station of some kind...can't remember exactly.

Not wishing tens of millions of Germans to starve to death by our hand =/= wishing a mere slap on the wrist.

Please no... Revenge fantasies aside, deindustrializing Germany is going to DESTROY German agriculture, and Germany's ability to feed itself. The deaths are going to be in the tens of millions. If we do this, we are no better than the nazis ourselves :mad:

Agreed, something has to change. We need to up the effort. The nazi menace must be destroyed, and if that means sending more troops, then that's what it means. I don't like what I'm reading between the lines of what Gen. Morris is quoted for, though.

I should have specified that I weren't referring to Greece, where things seem...yeah, I don't know what word to use, but certainly not the shitstorm that the rest of Europe can turn out to be.

I just hope we won't let this turn into a bloody massacre of Germans. It would mean the end to any and all claim of moral superiority over the nazi abomination.

Zero. Thermopylae's importance is primarily symbolic. As such, it is IMMENSELY important, but there was no way in fiddlestick Leonidas could have won. Although battles are not always won or lost because of numbers, they are when the numbers are so overwhelming as they are in this case. The real...

There isn't just ONE Evangelical position on Israel :) Especially, if you widen the definition of "evangelical" to the point where it includes the Reformation churches (who were the first to actually coin the term). What you're describing is....a fair approximation of the dispensationalist...