Reply #98: You are right about that.

[msmcghee]

The rise of the Nazi party was due in small part to the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty. (Did you mean to say "in no small part"?)

Actually, I think it was a significant reason (no small part). IMO WWII was due in large part to the unwise decision to humiliate the German people (which some would say was justified as the penalty for starting and prosecuting WWI - or at least for losing it) and then to stand by while they elected a megalomaniac to power who began violating the treaty.

You don't wound a bull and then expect peace in the barnyard. You kill it or make it your friend out of care and kindness. But, you can not ignore it.

(I'd appreciate Mr. Magistrate's view on this as I'm sure there's a more complete view of this history than my own.)

And going back to your first point - I'm inclined to agree on that as well, now that I understand it better. (Both Japan and Germany got immense support from the US after WW2, and this was I believe so as not to repeat the same mistake.)

Although they got support from the Allies and the West generally. More important than the support was the attention and close supervision of all details of their rebuilding and the restructuring of their government as well as treaties that made it impossible for those nations to ever become a threat to the West again.