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To: Neocon who wrote (122258)	12/27/2003 5:39:21 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Neocon; Re: "As I understand it, from rooting around the Internet, the United States was always the pre-eminent industrial power. Germany was number two." In this you are right and GST is wrong as the following link will show rather well with its data for various production in 1938 (with the US more than twice the size of Germany). And looking at the situation from the point of view of population and total production with the whole Axis versus Allies, the tilt was even more in the favor of the Allies: In gross economic terms, did the Axis stand a chance? ALLIES AXIS Total Population 359,940,000 195,380,000 % World Manufacturing Capacity 60 17 sun.ac.za But still, in 1938 (or 1936 for that matter), Germany had the second largest industrial production in the world, after the US. Your comparison with Iraq in 2003 is silly. -- Carl

To: Neocon who wrote (122258)	12/28/2003 11:45:18 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Germany was THE power but destroyed itself through the use of its industrial power in wars of conquest. The US was larger -- as Bilow has pointed out. But larger is not better. The US emerged as dominant during the war, a time when great strides were made in the US to win the war. By comparison, China is now larger than the US in population and growing rapidly, but it will be some time indeed before China surpasses the United States in scientific, industrial and military capability -- something we do not like to think about and something that has not in any way been factored into our foreign policy.