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To: Neocon who wrote (150158)	11/1/2004 1:30:24 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

If we had stopped Hitler early, we might have been blamed for fomenting war when there were diplomatic options. However, we would have prevented WWII, without being able to prove it. Talk about revisionism... America could have helped saved millions simply by joining the war on-time. As it was, it would be over two years after the start of World War II before the US would join the war declared on Germany first by Great Britain and France (before being overrun). Within a week of the start of WWII, commonwealth countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa had also joined the war. It took three quarters of a year since the start of WWII before the US would even shift its policy from "neutrality" to "non-belligerency". The Neutrality Act would not be repealed for many months later in the spring of 1941. Fully a year after the start of WWII, a hint as to the future is delivered by Roosevelt himself "We must be the great arsenal of the democracies." While Roosevelt to his credit believed in multilateralism (the "good neighbor policy), in hindsight its hard to imagine that raw capitalism didn't play a role in the decision making of the day. The US did not declare war on Germany until after two years passed from the start of WWII by Hitler. There was no danger of the US preempting anything in WWII. It was late to the party.