tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post588974218957099823..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: The Eleventh Hour TheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-4331433128686913062013-11-21T19:58:05.368-05:002013-11-21T19:58:05.368-05:00The problem is that there was no end to the war. T...The problem is that there was no end to the war. There were more dead between November 1918 and 1923 than there had been between 1914 and 1918; the fighting was more savage, involved larger territories - think only of the Russian civil war - and ended badly, with all the premises for the next catastrophe already in place. Versailles was quite literally a bloody farce, at which allies that were not allied tried to write a peace they were not willing to enforce against enemies who had not accepted they were defeated, while a clever young Englishman added another dimension to the farce with a smartly-written pamphlet that made the head of the average allied citizen spin. It was, in fact, the first and one of the worst instances of that peculiarly modern perversion of practice and theory, the "peace process", in which people pretend to be working towards peace while never stopping from violence.F.P.Barbierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06758644014524735007noreply@blogger.com