Re: USA & Iran

On 1 May 2006 16:40:47 -0700,
wf3h <wf3h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

AC wrote:
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.

guess we should have jumped in sooner, just like we did in iraq

oh...i forgot...you're against that, too.

seems you're against war except when you're in favor of it.

The situations are so entirely different as to not be comparable. Iraq
posed no threat and was contained, and even if it wasn't, it simply does not
possess the industrial capacity and population that Germany does.


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.


so you're saying we should have intervened earlier? gotten into war
earlier?

Yes.


that your take on iraq, too?

Iraq was contained.


or are you gonna be inconsistent there as well?

Are you going to even try to make sense? Evidently your knowledge of
inter-war Germany is pretty bloody weak.

--
Aaron Clausen
mightymartianca@xxxxxxxxxxx

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