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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (749029)	9/11/2006 8:34:41 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 769670

"Not an altogether unreasonable point of view at that time... with an ocean on either side of us, and no strategic threats (as in transatlantic aircraft... let alone ballistic missiles or nuclear weapons) that could reach us... and with England mostly the world's bule water naval power." I remember reading about the future shock that hit the isolationist wing of America Now when there was analysis that if the Germans allied with Spain and Franco gave access around the tip of Africa, then if would be possible for German Aircraft to just barely hop over the narrow piece of the Atlantic and land in...Brazil! Brazil, with a small population, a lot of raw materials and next door to Argentina, which had a large ethnic german population. Suddenly the Atlantic did not look quite as big as before. With air cover German shipping could move back and forth between continents...Yikes.