Ha, yes, whatever, more opportunities for your Platteral smugness. Your "then" is a massive causal short-cut across many more complicated events, of which the order in which Poland and Belgium fell is but a minor detail, compared to the lapse before US involvement.
Gratitude yes, for US help, but not single-handed gloating rescue, and certainly not to evil morons like you. Saved us from the Commies too ? ... you'll have to educate me on that one. Ian On 4/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Smugness with hindsight is a wonderful thing Platt. But the right > > thing was done - peaceful resolution was sought first. The madman > > mis-read the situation, and risked invading Belgium - and act of war > > that was met with an appropriate warlike response. > > Guess I'll not be taking no lessons in history from the likes of you, Ian. > Hitler invaded Poland, not Belgium, after Chamberlain waved his piece of > worthless paper and declared, "Peace in our time." Then we came over and > saved Europe, not only from the Nazis but later from the Commies. A little > gratitude would be nice, but we're not holding our breath, any more than we > expect to receive any gratitude from others we've helped both here and abroad > during our nation's history. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > moq_discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
