Um yes the material was sent to Britain and the Soviet Union, but Roosevelt got around the Neutrality act provisions by enacting the Lend-Lease Act where Britain traded military bases and war materials. It was a fine example of a legislative end run.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:15 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Depends on which version of history you use, I reckon. And I guess >> how you define "entered the war", meaning declaring war or doing >> warlike "stuff". >> >> Some folk say we didn't know it was so bad over there, and when we >> started learning, it got us motivated. >> >> I don't buy that, but it's been argued, at least. :) >> >> No, we were pretty isolationist then, due to WW!, right? It just >> sounds nice, you know. Like "the civil war was about freeing slaves" >> type of nice. >> > > We'd been sending money and supplies to the Allies for quite awhile. I was > always taught that it was probably an eventuality that the US would have > entered the war on the side of the Allies at some point...and that the > attack on Pearl Harbor simply hastened that day, and made it easier. FDR > wanted to enter the war for months, maybe years, prior to 1941, but had no > way of convincing an isolationist public. > > In a bit of "history repeats", this thought spurred some crazy republicans > of the day to surmise that FDR orchestrated Pearl Harbor to get us into the > war. 60 years later, and we had some conspiracy nuts thinking the same thing > re: 9/11. While some of these conspiracy delusions are rooted in political > lunacy, most often conspiracy theories speak to a deep seeded need in people > to apply a sense of order to that which is chaotic or seemingly beyond their > control. > > -- > The suburbs have no charms to soothe > The restless dream of youth > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318490 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
