Last one, I promise.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Perdue
Sent: 31 May 2002 10:17
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT:RE: [HP3000-L] How To Stop Suicide
Terrorists.. .

Matthew wrote:

>Obviously you need another history lesson. Perhaps you've never heard of
>the "Lend Lease" program under Roosevelt that in the end GAVE billions
>of dollars worth of war goods, ships, food, etc. to England and other
>countries - virtually all of which was never paid back.
................snip

I know the US contributed financially to the war effort, but they weren't
prepared to enter the war itself until they were attacked.


>And here you demonstrate your total lack of understanding of the
>American spirit. Freedom, Mr. Barker, is what Americans value - possibly
>freedom you've never experienced and therefore cannot understand. The US
>population in 1940 was 131,669,275 - Japan's 73,114,300. Even if Japan
>had been able to kill Americans one-for-one, there'd still have been
>58,554,975 Americans left after the carnage. Read Tom Brokaw's book "The
>Greatest Generation" to get an understanding that yes, Americans would
>have fought to the last man, woman and child to retain our freedom, as
>we will today. As for speaking Russian, Roosevelt/Truman probably would
>have just nuked 'em and called it a good day.

I have to admit this is the funniest thing I heard in while, that population
size will govern who wins a war.  Vietnam, in 1969 had a overall population
of 40 Million, the US, I guess around 200 M, so what happened.

>Freedom, Mr. Barker, is what Americans value - possibly
>freedom you've never experienced and therefore cannot understand.

I don't quite know what your knowledge of Europe or Belgium is, but IMO, I
have a lot more freedom than you.  Europe, in general, has a much more
liberal attitude to civil law, so maybe you've never experienced real
freedom like we have in Europe.




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