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To: thames_sider who wrote (2650)	3/15/2002 8:48:13 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I am happy to say that I agree. That is, I think, implied in my approval of our stance after the Second World War. However, Britain and France were the powers on the line, and could, as I said, have stopped Hitler cold......

To: thames_sider who wrote (2650)	3/15/2002 9:23:43 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Where was the only one with a larger military budget than Germany Where did you ever get that idea? Do you know the strength of the U.S. Army in 1940? 190,000 regulars. Which put us close to, say, Paraguay. We had so few tanks that regulars trained with old trucks that had "tank" painted on the side. The U.S. Navy was antiquated and no match for Japan's more modern fleet. The United States was still in the Depression. We had few modern fighters or bombers. Your army was much bigger than ours. France's was bigger yet. Poland's army was far larger. When the Nazi's finally invaded France, conventional wisdom was that France would prevail. Even some of Hitler's generals believed that. France fell in what, about two weeks? Are you suggesting that two weeks was plenty of time for the world's richest country (with 30 percent unemployed) to build a modern army, navy, and air force, ship it across the Atlantic on a newly-built fleet of modern transports, and stop the Nazi's cold in their tracks? The question I've always had is why Superman didn't step in. He could have rolled up Germany in a ball, hurled it into deep space, and created a nice lake in its place. I love the man, but I've always wondered why he, as the world's strongest man, just sat by in Metropolis (draft dodger?) twiddling his steel thumbs.