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    Quote Originally Posted by UKSmartypants View Post




    you need to stop smoking that stuff. The French are no more anyones friends than Herr Schiucklegruber was.

    They have been better friends to the US, than vice-versa.

    Just like Britain.

    One of the things that DOES get at me, as an American, is just how poor WE have been as "allies."

    America goes to war, and, Great Britain is typically at our side.

    And yet...during the 20th Century, the United States left ALL our European allies "out to dry," not once, but TWICE.

    Then we get pissy because the world doesn't snap to, when we need help.
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    sacrebleu!!!
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    its a couple of little fishing boats banging into each other...
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    Screw that I'm thinkin South African Scientists who developed a Time Machine in 1981 and transported 2 cases of AK 47 and 5 pallets of Ammo & Magazines to The Confederacy in 1862

    and few thousand mortars and surface to surface missiles .. just to soften up the battlegrounds thumb.gif

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    Why did we save France again? Any one know?
    For the baguettes??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swedgin View Post
    They have been better friends to the US, than vice-versa.

    Just like Britain.

    One of the things that DOES get at me, as an American, is just how poor WE have been as "allies."

    America goes to war, and, Great Britain is typically at our side.

    And yet...during the 20th Century, the United States left ALL our European allies "out to dry," not once, but TWICE.

    Then we get pissy because the world doesn't snap to, when we need help.
    Bold- you realize the US fought in Europe's wars, yes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hermannsdenkmal View Post
    Bold- you realize the US fought in Europe's wars, yes?
    Yes.

    Well after years of our allies fighting, and getting slaughtered.

    Had America entered EITHER WW I or WW II earlier, millions of lives may have been saved.

    We literally left Great Britain all ALONE to face the full might of the NAZI's (Until they so foolishly turned to take on the Soviets....)

    Sure, we "helped" and, most likely, our entry into both wars was the deciding factor.

    But, our allies suffered and died, while we drug our feet.

    As such, I just think it a bit arrogant (and perhaps, hypocritical) of AMERICA to always expect friends and allies to jump up and join us every time we go to war.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swedgin View Post
    Yes.

    Well after years of our allies fighting, and getting slaughtered.

    Had America entered EITHER WW I or WW II earlier, millions of lives may have been saved.

    We literally left Great Britain all ALONE to face the full might of the NAZI's (Until they so foolishly turned to take on the Soviets....)

    Sure, we "helped" and, most likely, our entry into both wars was the deciding factor.

    But, our allies suffered and died, while we drug our feet.

    As such, I just think it a bit arrogant (and perhaps, hypocritical) of AMERICA to always expect friends and allies to jump up and join us every time we go to war.
    Yes, but even as a child, you learn very early on in life that it pays to be mates with the biggest kid in the playground.


    Yes USA was slow off the mark in the Great International Misunderstanding of 1914-1918, and the Replay 1939-1945, but the issue each time was the American people in both cases were isolationist, and it took the president a while to convince them it was in the USA's interests to support the British and help them win. In the latter case Pearl harbour had to be sacrificed to outrage the people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UKSmartypants View Post
    Yes, but even as a child, you learn very early on in life that it pays to be mates with the biggest kid in the playground.


    Yes USA was slow off the mark in the Great International Misunderstanding of 1914-1918, and the Replay 1939-1945, but the issue each time was the American people in both cases were isolationist, and it took the president a while to convince them it was in the USA's interests to support the British and help them win. In the latter case Pearl harbour had to be sacrificed to outrage the people.

    One mustn’t forget the enormous burden the U.K. had fighting wars on all fronts during WW2, the financial cost made Britain bankrupt.

    Churchill courted the United States like a schoolboy with his first girlfriend into joining the war, but it took Japan to flatten Pearl Harbour.

    When America joined the war victory was assured, the “Lend Lease” agreement actually reduced Britain into the poor man of Europe because we had no gold reserves left, America had everything. The countries who were invaded by Germany still had Gold reserves around the world…… Britain had nothing.

    Even the British companies in America were sold off by auction as part of the lend lease agreement.

    Margaret Thatcher in the 80s excitedly announced “We have paid off the finances of the War agreements to the United States by a final payment of £30billion.

    Most Americans think of our little island as a of no consequence, our American cousins did not allow our British scientists to know the inner workings of setting a nuclear bomb off, nor the rocket science to deliver it. Because of this we had to build our own Nukes, also our own missile system (blue streak) which cost the U.K. billions whilst we were still recovering from the bankruptcy of war.

    This must seem a trifle bad sportsman to bring all of this up, but! The American government impoverished us and what you see now is the result.

    God Bless America.
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