Re: Sinking of battleship Maine

From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 11:07:00 PDT


Consider no SpanAm War no Rough Riders, no Battle of
San Juan. Teddy Roosevelt never becomes a household
name. No Great White Fleet or the Panama Canal.

Rick

--- "J. L." <milveh@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> This is a great example to consider how the dynamics
> of history could
> change, if even one little event was altered
> somewhere along the time-line.
> So, at the time of occurance an event (like the
> sinking of the Maine) may
> seem relatively obscure to the rest of the world as
> a whole, but as the
> series of other connected events follows, profound
> changes in the time-line
> can occur. I think the Japanese Shinto religion
> calls this the "Wings of
> the Butterfly" effect...a minor event that puts in
> place a series of events
> that makes big changes down the road...interesting,
> but probably a little
> esoteric for this group! lol
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:13 AM, Rick v100 wrote:
>
> > If it was not the Maine it would have been another
> > reason that the war started.
>
> Correct. Which is why so many theorized that the
> Maine was actually
> blown up by the US itself. It was so obvious that
> the US was looking
> for a reason for war that the sinking seemed to be a
> little too
> coincidental. I think that theory has been put to
> rest just as a
> deliberate Spanish action has been, but the point
> remains that if it
> wasn't the Maine it would have been something else.
> Many of the wars
>
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