"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:30:25 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


David Looser wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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J G Miller wrote:

All because of the perceived need to produce weapons of mutual
annihilation.


We wouldn't need to do it, if you Europeans would stop starting
World
Wars.


According to the history books the US entered WW2 because it was
attacked by
the Japanese. It seems that Michael A. Terrell thinks that Japan is in
Europe.


Sigh. America was supplying AKA: LENDING planes and other war
materials to help Europe clean up their mess, long before Japan attacked
Pearl Harbor. Is the school system really that bad where you grew up?

Lend-lease was hardly decisive in the 1939-1941 period. The planes that
denied Goering air-superiority over Britain were all British designed and
built and flown overwhelmingly by British pilots (with some from
Czechoslovakia and Poland).

I hope you are not imagining that America did that from anything other
than good, solid self-interst.

And its worth pointing out that the country that did far more than any other
to defeat Nazi Germany was the Soviet Union. Once Hitler made the fatal
mistake of invading the USSR he sealed the fate of his regime. The most
probable outcome had the US not entered the European [1] war would have been
Soviet hegemony over most of Europe, rather than just the Eastern part. The
implications of that for the post-war balance of power are obvious.

[1] The US didn't have the luxury of deciding whether or not to enter the
Pacific war, unless, of course, it chose to cease to have any presence in
the Pacific region.

David.