>Len,
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>>>>Sure, believe it or not, they did! It wasn't the Americans that took Europe out of barbarity! <vbg>
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>>>So who rescued their butts in two world wars then?
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>>I really must study my history - I'm sure I was taught that the Americans stayed out of those wars until they were sure they could join in on the winning side.
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>Well, let me ask you this. If America had stayed out of either the 1st or 2nd World War would the results have been different?
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>If not then we just threw away those lives for nothing.
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>Or is this just an example of the European arrogance and disdain at needing our help, where it's just too painful to think that a bunch of 'cowboys' <g> had to come resuce the oh-so spohisticated Eoropeans I've heard some have.

Missing the point, Doug, I said you stayed out until you could join the winning side, so people like you could arrogantly state that the world would have been a different place if you had stayed out of the wars.

There is a great deal of evidence to show the support Hitler had from Americans for a long time after the war started, stemming both from his anti-communist & anti-semite views.