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David wrote:

On 22 Feb 2007 12:01:08 -0800, "tack" wrote:

...instead of marching across Asia at the end of WWII, we
assisted in rebuilding our former enemies' infrastructure...
the QUALITY of the American people isn't the same in this generation
as in that one...

The Marshall Plan was very unpopular in this country. But it benefited the U.S.
economy to do so, or we simply would not have done it.

If the U.S. had lost 17 million people in WWII, we would have done as the
Russians did after that war. Russia was just trying to rebuild themselves. But
they tried to rebuild eastern Europe..the western powers (us) did everything we
could to undercut the Russians and we used Nazis to do much of our dirty work.
They suffered tremendous damage to their country in WWII. The U.S. sustained
Pearl Harbor. The U.S. gets the 9/11 paper-cut and we go to war with two
countries ( one for reasons known at the time to be lies ) and threatened at
least two more. The U.S. does have plans to invade Korea and Iran. The U.S. has
many illegal Mexicans here doing nothing but the hard work Americans won't do.
They come here only to work. The U.S. starts building fences to keep them out.
You should know that. What the hell will we do if we sucessfully keep people
from Central and South America out??????

Now that I think about it, as I wrote before, Russia was busy fighting Germany
on their own before the Germans started the western front. And it's a damn good
thing the Russians _were_ fighting the Germans. The Allied Armies on the western
front were inferior to the German Army in terms of equipment, training, morale,
military strategy...in every battle where the odds were close to even, the
Germans prevailed. Russia was also fighting Japan on their Eastern border as
were the Chinese Communists. And the U.S. thumps their chest and claims to have
won the war(s). No they didn't! As is typical of the U.S., we did as little as
possible, make as few sacrifices as possible, declare victory, and go back to
homes and a country untouched by war.

Come up on current events if you want to even try to keep up with me. At least
pay attention to what I've written. Then read some books.

MM

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith