In message , robert
arndt writes
Quit your snivelin you pompous ass. Ever heard of the Arsenal of
Democracy? If it werent for our lend-lease program you people would
all be speaking German.

If it wasn't for the rest of the world, the US would have noticed there
was a problem only when central New York disappeared in a mushroom crowd
and Nazi Germany said "we have nuclear weapons and missles to launch
them, surrender or else".

Why you got your asses kicked at Dunkirk and
had to paddle home leavin your guns on the beaches.

As opposed to the heroic US military, who were...? Oh, there _was_ no US
military worth the name at the time. Curious that _we_ were fighting,
and you call us cowards: you were hiding behind the Atlantic, and saying
that was wise.

At home you had a
beaten army and some raggedy Home Guard units with pitchforks ready to
fight (as Churchill boasted) on the beaches, in the fields, etc...
Hell, you almost lost it in the Battle of Britain too.

We _were_ ready to fight, which was handy at the time. The US was ready
to do... what? Pretend the war was far away and not their problem? That
was a _superb_ plan for us in 1938... not!

Had those
German *******s kept bombing your airfields, oil tanks, docks, and
production centers you would have eventually capitulated.

Or they'd have run out of bombers and aircrew, which is more likely.
Both sides had an interest in inflating the value of strategic bombing.

Fundamentally, the Germans never hurt the Royal Navy, and there's no way
to land and sustain an invasion via river barges, when outnumbered 5:1
or worse by destroyers whose owners are willing to lose many of them as
the cost of survival.

The Luftwaffe could have beaten the RAF back and forced them north of
the Thames. So what? They still can't get enough troops and supplies
across the Channel to be useful, not with the Kriegsmarine overcommitted
already to defending the landing force, providing fire support, clearing
mines, hunting submarines _and_ fighting off the British counterstroke
(all in one day without replenishment, too!)

--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam