On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Chris Morton wrote:
> In article <20060119121927.S85897@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, xeno says...
>
> >"We" didn't have to because the Brits & the Soviets were the ones that
got
> >bombed by the Luftwaffe. On top of that, the Luftwaffe was hampered by
not
> And WE supplied both of them with large numbers of aircraft and armored
> vehicles.
All of that is a red herring. We didn't need a so-called "airtight" air
defense because nobody had any real capability to attack the US mainland.
> >having any real strategic bombers. (& also by not taking advantage of
> The Germans didn't need strategic bombers to bomb Britain.
Their bombing of Britain would have been far more effective if they had
bombers that could deliver a larger payload & had a greater range, like
the RAF & the USAAF had. Not to mention fighters with enough range to
protect them over their targets & on their way back. You can't dispute
that w/o absurdity.
> >jets more effectively when they produced them, & a number of other
similar
> >what-have-yous). & arguably it was the Soviets who won WW2 by breaking
the
> >back of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. That was what made D-Day
> Arguably it was the Soviets who enabled Hitler to START WWII by
> eliminating the immediate danger of a second front. The invasion of
> Poland in 1939 was a JOINT one.
So what. The Soviets made a deal with Hitler to stave off an attack by
Hitler which they presumed was going to ineventually come anyway. Who was
going to come to defence of the Soviet Union? Nobody. So, just because the
Soviets were ruthless doesn't mean that they enabled Hitler in his
aggression. They did what they did because of it.
>>possible. At any rate, if any of this is even remotely analogous to this
>>nasty business in the Iraq, "We" are the Nazis this time.
> Certainly not in any meaningful sense. Now if we were sending tens of
> thousands of Iraqis home as slave laborers and gassing millions more to
> death, you'd have a point. We aren't and you don't.
The Iraqis didn't attack us, had nothing to do with 911, & we started a
war with them anyway lying about the reasons. That's what makes us like
Nazis. You brought up this WW2 analogy business & it just doesn't work.
Not the way you want it to.
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