Built like a Mercedes 3662More rubbish than one bucket can hold. First off, Lend Lease was signed March 11 1941. Prior ot that, executive order placed miltary freight on its way to England. Thus we supplied Britain far...
Max Dodge
You actually only entered the war when it became obvious that the USA would have to deal with a power greater than itself if Britain fell. The penny didn't drop in the Pacific until most of the fleet had been sunk at Pearl Harbour.
It is hard to imagine that the average American has the slightest more idea of how their military work than anyone anywhere but others could take a step back dispbuttionately and see what was happening in Vietnam. It is also fairly obvious what is happening now in Iraq and the gung-ho talk of whooping Chinese buttes by some here is a reasoning that is a fair way removed from reality. One has to see beyond the militarist rhetoric. Face it, your military power is not capable even if the government chose to do so. And why should it be capable? Military action should be a last resort in defence not as an invading force on a power that was no doubt sympathetic to Bin Laden, but was no real threat to the USA. There are now a hell of a lot more enemies of the West than ever before and with no end in sight for your stretched military or for peace in Iraq. Hammas, a person organisation, has just won free and fair election in Palestine. This would not have happened without a greatly increased animosity towards the West.
Huw
Built like a Mercedes 3663Well Alan, I guess you forgot about Lend Lease destroyers (the four stackers, as they were called), and the huge amounts of supplies and milatary hardware shipped to England from 1939 to...
