Re: USA & Iran

On Mon, 01 May 2006 18:16:51 -0500,
Robert J. Kolker <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
AC wrote:


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.

The point is we did get in on the side of the Brits.

Eventually.

And before that we
provided them with materials of war which compromised our neutral
standing.

For which the US essentially received the keys to the Bank of England.
Telling a guy who has a gun pointed at his head that, for the contents of
his wallet, you'll knock the gun out of the perpetrator's hand is not all
that generous.

In 1940 we shipped them the first P-51s. They got the best
fighter in war from us even before out people used it. The name of the
game was Lend-Lease. Americans were not ready to bleed until Pearl Harbor.

And, at the end of the day, supplanted the British Empire (as well as
digging its grave).

That's not to say that the Brits weren't grateful, but to suggest, as so
many "patriots" do that there was some phenomonal sacrifice and generosity
to Lend Lease is ludicrous. The actual sacrifices didn't come until
Americans finally hit the dirt and began shooting Germans and Japanese,
which took some time.

--
Aaron Clausen
mightymartianca@xxxxxxxxxxx

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