However the statement that isolation contributed to thew war is silly.
The fact is there were only two powers that could of stopped Germany, England and France. France did not have the manpower to do it, they were devastated by WWI, and they lacked strong political leadership. England had some leadership, but they honestly believed that Germany was not a threat.Heck, England though Stalin and the Soviets were a bigger threat.
Furthermore, England and France honestly thought that Hitler did not want war (England and France remembered the horrors of war themselves and thought that Germany/ Hitler would remember themselves.) Throw in the fact that England and France both believed that Germany were making reasonable demands/ request.

In my opinion their personal attacks are not only way over the top but also, especially at this point, unnecessary.

"......I was very pleased with what I heard.  I thought it was a great step in the right direction.  I thought it was full of substance.  I thought it laid out a vision.  Some details are needed but I thought it was very very good and I was pleased at what he had to say.........I thought it was a major step forward."

In this article it sounds like the boy might have pointed the replica gun at the officers.

"No cop wants to shoot anybody," Garrity says. "Nobody. But if somebody's got a gun, how am I supposed to tell these officers, 'Hey, make sure that he shoots you first, and then you can do it?'"

"But if he not pointing it at police, why do they got the right to shoot?" the young man asks.

"He did," Garrity says.

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(TRIVIA NOTE: Seven NFL teams do NOT employ cheerleaders -- the Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Good for them.)

Seriously, though, and speaking for myself only, I think people stopped paying attention to college cheerleaders at games a long time ago, certainly since you and I were in college. Because as the years have passed by, the pom-poms have gotten smaller, the outfits have gotten tighter and skimpier, and the cheers have tended to become incoherent and get lost in the din. (Does anybody know or hear what cheerleaders are actually yelling anymore?) So, as far as I can determine, the average Power Conference college pep squad's primary purpose nowadays appear to be twofold.

First, per my alma mater University of Washington's much lambasted directive for the ideal Husky cheerleader, they are to serve as delectable eye candy -- and I'm not just talking about female cheerleaders here -- for the older and wealthy alumni who've mostly displaced the student sections along the sidelines at many major college football stadiums.

Sad to say, most students today have been relocated to the end zone sections, so the athletic departments can then sell those prime sideline seats for mucho dinero to the school's wealthy boosters. No doubt, the primo sideline seats at college basketball arenas will soon follow suit, if they haven't already, and be taken away from these ungrateful students who should be studying for midterms anyway, and sold to the people who really matter, e.g., our corporate sponsors. I mean, let's face it, having a $4-7 million coach stalk your alma mater's sidelines, and chartering jets for your team's road games, costs real money. Somebody's going to have to pay for it -- right?

Secondly, when you do see these cheerleaders perform at games, it's usually some truly hair-raising acrobatic stunts for the TV cameras during timeouts, especially at basketball games. In fact, many college cheerleaders also pull double duty as members of their school's gymnastics teams, so they are every bit as much college athletes as any football or basketball player. Still, some of those stunts are really scary, and can often prove a distraction from the game itself.

My UW Husky Athletic Dept. made a mistake by putting its cheerleader criteria in print, where everyone could see it and then fulminate in righteous outrage. But while that offending post may have since been taken down, I'll offer better than even odds that this criteria will likely remain in place in the department for quite some time in the future. And that's what is sad.