Michael Baier wrote :

> Brice,
>
> as you know so much about history you might be able to answer
> the following
> question.
>
> Why didn't America declare war in 1939 to Germany?
> Germany declared war on the US in december 1941 as it was an
> allie of Japan
> at that time.
> That was after Germany had overrun most of Europe.
> Still, no declaration of war.

Much along the same line, why didn't the US declare war to Benito Mussolini,
at the time so many Italians were fleeing their own land, and coming to the
States by the hundreds of thousands ?

Why didn't the US declare war to the Spanish dictatorship of Gen. Francisco
Franco, at the time so many American citizens (Ernest Hemingway comes to my
mind, obviously) were fighting as private citizens in the ranks of the
Republican army ?

> So, please stop telling everyone, that the mighty US protects
> the innocent
> and fights dictators everywhere. That is just not true.
> It uses dictators as long as they are usefull.
> They are being armed and supported
> See Saddam, Noriega and many many others.

In the two instances I mention above, I would certainly not go as far as
implying the US helped the dictators. They did not. They just turned a blind
eye.

Sad to say, much as the rest of the world did ...sigh ...

Christian

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