Trust me. By the time Pearl Harbor was involved, it was a forgone conclusion that
America was involved on both fronts. We were already sending raw materials and
weapons (guns, tanks, planes, etc.). All that was missing was our people to shoot,
drive, and fly them.
America declared war on Japan but had already committed to everything but "headcount"
on the other front also. Again, I would like to point out though that this is exactly
what Europe had asked for. Perhaps America needs to revisit this policy of helping
out rather than "stepping-in" and trying to solve everything. Although in this case,
war was the eventual outcome (and of Kuwait also), this is not necessarily true of
Bosnia, Somalia and a host of others that we got involved in. Of course those are my
2 cents. Maybe people looking back in 50 years will know things we don't.
JayW
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/12/01 10:13AM >>>
Except that the US declared war on Japan only. Germany and Italy
declared war on the US after that.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horst Hinz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:14 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: FW: NewYork Terrorist Attack
>
>
> OK, I don't want to get into a huge debate or anything, but
> if I remember my history correctly, America was sitting out
> WWII until Pearl Harbour. Sure they provided equipment to
> the British, but Europe was on it's own until someone hit the
> US and THEIR security was threatened. So in effect, America
> was fighting for itself as well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Woody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:01 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: FW: NewYork Terrorist Attack
>
>
> >> We all won the war...
> >> The Allies. Their decendants. Those of us here.
> >> We all lost people in WWII.
>
> The point being here that until America entered into the
> fray, it was not boding well for ALL of Europe. Numerous
> countries were defeated and had already surrendered. Yes, we
> all won the war, but we all weren't responsible for that win
> as many of the "teams" had already left the playing field.
> And it obviously wasn't going well before America got
> involved. This goes back to the point that America does care
> about it's "neighbors". "We all won the war..." seems a
> little flippant and not in understanding with what was going
> on at the time. I can tell you that we WEREN'T all winning
> the war until America came over and gave it's kids for
> foreign soil. Europeans were fighting to protect themselves.
> Americans were fighting for Europeans, our "neighbors". To
> now say that we wouldn't care if this (the terrorist attack)
> had happened anywhere in the world is just silly.
>
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