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To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (256909)	7/6/2008 8:59:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794027

Good, you are one person who seems to understand that the USSR played the main role [not just main, but by far and away, by a long shot] in defeating Germany. <Surely, Russia played a very large roll in defeating the Germans, but what the hell do you think western Europe would have looked like without US forces checking the Red Tide?> It seems rather obvious that if the Allies hadn't been coming from the west and south, the USSR would have taken over the whole of Germany, and maybe more besides, probably the whole thing. Did you somehow get the idea that I thought something different? I wonder how you got that. You can go back and read how I explained that it wasn't Reagan who stemmed the tide, but it went way back to the Berlin airlift, Cuba etc. Reagan was a bystander, albeit one who wasted a huge fortune on unnecessary military efforts, while Gorby gave up on the whole idea of USSR and communist expansion and adopted a sensible approach to humanity. The foundations of USA success were British, namely English; habeas corpus, common law, capitalism, human rights and all the rest of it: <It something that I have found much fault with in the past, but not to the point of pining over a long gone & flawed empire.> The USA is currently in the process of ditching that silly habeas corpus stuff, and what with water boarding and other "stress positions" as photographed in Iraq, isn't making much headway with lecturing China about human rights. I think they would laugh out loud now. The USA is also plenty flawed. That doesn't mean it's all bad and good riddance. The USA does lots of great things. Being bad is the nature of governments spending OPM. But there is still a pecking order of governments from not too bad, to outright horrendous. The British Empire brought civilisation to umpty millions and now billions. Credit where it's due. If there were free elections in Africa, I think a lot of them would vote to be part of Britain again, and be rid of their local kleptocratic and murderous megalomaniacs. If they could vote to be the 54th, 55th 60th USA states, or even just protectorate, condominium etc, they'd jump at the chance. Mqurice