Re: USA & Iran

On Mon, 01 May 2006 17:33:46 -0500,
Robert J. Kolker <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
AC wrote:



Yes, and I also remember how the British Empire was bankrupted and left to
fight the first third of the war on its own. Pretty good war for the US,
seeing as the wealth that England had built since Elizabeth I made it into
American coffers.

Life is tough. You might call it reparations for damages done during the
war of 1812.

That's not the point, now is it. In the part of the post you chopped out,
you were telling us of the rightness of America, and when I give you an
example of an actual out-and-out ally that stood up to Nazi Germany while
isolationists kept the US sitting on its hands and was rewarded by being
financially denuded, you go off on another tangent.

--
Aaron Clausen
mightymartianca@xxxxxxxxxxx

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