To: Wharf Rat who wrote (204607 ) 7/8/2021 6:54:53 PM From: epicure Respond to I would say, "When Hitler takes control of Europe, and destroys England, he will come for America. The fight against Hitler is an existential fight for humanity. IF Hitler should win, humanity will enter a dark age- and America cannot let that happen."Soon after, however, France fell, and in August the German Luftwaffe began an all-out bombing campaign against Great Britain. The British Royal Air Force valiantly repelled the German onslaught, showing that Hitler was not invincible. A September 1940 poll found that 52% of Americans now believed the United States ought to risk war to help the British. That number only increased as Britain continued its standoff with the Germans; by April 1941 polls showed that 68% of Americans favored war against the Axis powers if that was the only way to defeat them. Sept 1940- 52% favored intervention I get it, people have a hard time seeing into the future. I'm not sure why, since the future is so often a repetition of the past, but let's let that be. You could say the same thing you are saying, about sHitler- and why it wasn't necessary to oppose him- when it was clear as hell he was a fascist fuck. You fight against fascist fucks because they can be the end of humanity as we know it. Civil wars, petty squabbles- sure- we can be isolationist about those. But a mad man taking over Europe? Bent on the destruction of the UK? I don't think so. History has already proved me right on this- so I'm not sure what we're arguing about. Hitler had to be stopped- sooner would have been better, and clearly sooner would have happened had the US intervened earlier.
