Terry Duncan wrote: ↑23 Mar 2020, 13:53
yongrichards wrote: ↑23 Mar 2020, 10:20
piece treaties are only pieces of paper, covering the period till the next war
This truth is very hard to recognize. People who say education is not required today do not know the history and in my opinion well-educated people can prevent war.
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A treaty is more than a piece of paper as long as there is the will to enforce it or nations are willing to abide by it. Ignoring a treaty that is deemed still in force will result in war, as it did in WWI and WWII.
The only way to enforce a treaty, is ...to wage war .
How could US prevent NK and Iran to have nuclear weapons ? Answer : by waging war .
That was the dilemma by which the Allied governments were faced after WWI : how could they enforce the Treaty of Versailles, the Pact of Locarno, etc ? The answer was : by waging war .But the propaganda had told the electors that WWI has been fought to end all wars ,thus how could western governments start new wars ?
At Locarno ,Aristide Briand said : guerre á la guerre : war to war , which implied that the victors of WWI could not start wars to prevent the losers to undo Versailles and Locarno .
About education : Wilson was a professor from Princeton ( I know some people will argue that professors at Princeton are not well-educated,but,whatever ) : not only did Wilson not prevent the outbreak of WWI,and under his leadership US intervened in WWI, but Wilson intervened before WWI by force in the domestic affairs of several countries as Mexico, Cuba, ...
Old Bush was well-educated ( he was not teaching at Princeton ) , but he did not prevent the massacre in Rwanda and the Iraqi invasion of Kuweit .