According to the chart below, only China, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia lost more military personnel than the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
"Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love." - Amma --- On Fri, 6/5/09, TurquoiseB <[email protected]> wrote: From: TurquoiseB <[email protected]> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Signs we're getting old #27 To: [email protected] Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 4:11 PM --- In [email protected], "Richard M" <compost...@...> wrote: > > On the face of it yes, one could claim that the U.S. has spent > her wealth on the military, whilst Europe has "invested" in > health care for her citizens. But that rather ignores the > benefit Europe has had from being able to shelter behind > American skirts since 1945, no? Doesn't that imply that Europe "bought into" the "need" to "shelter behind American skirts?" In other words, although the contribution to Euro-defense during WWII by the Americans cannot be denied, it has been often *exaggerated* by both Americans and Europeans, in the decades since, to get Europeans to "buy into" the need to keep fueling the American Military Industrial Complex. And there is simply no question that the Americans have used this "We owe the Americans our lives" mentality to rape Europe economically and in many other ways ever since. And with Europe's full cooperation. Of *all* the nations whose troops were involved in World War II, Americans contributed the fewest, and *lost* the fewest soldiers. Compare and contrast to the image they have care- fully projected to the world since. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: [email protected] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
