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To: Rajala who wrote (19025)	12/2/1998 4:23:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 152472

OT RE: World War II Amazing how emotions still throb after all of these years. But there are some facts in this area. Nations don't have friends or enemies, they have interests. France and UK actually do (morally?) owe billions to the United States from World War's I and II payment of which were suspended or forgiven. When Calvin Cooledge was asked about forgiveness he replied "They hired the money, didn't they?" but Hoover forgave. The US gave billions to rebuild UK and Europe in the post-war loans and Marshall Plan, buying stability and allies. New Zealand went to the aid of UK in two wars, but it didn't have to. Blood is thicker than water, and NZ shed a lot of it even though UK left NZ virtually undefended and messed up the defense of Singapore. The Japanese demonstrated their strategic stupidity by allowing itself to be provoked into a war that some of their best minds (such as Yamamoto) believed they could not win. The U.S. Navy almost lost it, but managed to struggle back. Hitler was also provoked into declaring war on the U.S. American war ships were attacked in the months before Pearl Harbor as they engaged in antisubmarine patrols and attacked German uboats, and convoyed ships to Britain. Of course, Hitler's major mistake was the attack on the Soviet Union while still fighting UK. The two great leaders who saved the world from a Nazi-Japanese conquest Churchill -- who had the boldness to stand alone against Hitler with the promise of help from Roosevelt who struggled to turn America from neutralism to rescue the chance of human freedom from extinction. The UK was held India and much of Asia and Africa in colonial subjection, and the U.S. permitted states and people to engage in racial, religious, disability and gender discrimination. So they fought only for the hope, and not the reality of human liberty. That struggle is not yet won.