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In the short time following Hans Blix's devastating report and President Bush's compelling State of the Union address, Saddam Hussein looks increasingly more like a dead man walking. In all likelihood, Baghdad will be liberated by April. This may turn out to be one of those hinge moments in history--events like the storming of the Bastille or the fall of the Berlin Wall--after which everything is different. Another such moment is history was the commencement …

…of Alsace-Lorraine became the chief rallying force for French nationalism and was a major cause of the armaments race that led to World War I. The Franco-Prussian war embittered Franco-German relations for decades to come, contributing to the European rivalries which would later erupt. French agitation for revanche - revenge for the loss of Alsace-Lorraine - gave its name to the phenomenon of revanchism, the desire to punish a past enemy and regain former territories.