> Actually, the USA was asked to help Australia in 1939. We had the crap > bombed out of us. After Pearl Harbour the USA decided that Oz was a > great place to base a lot of Operations.
Most Americans tend to be isolationists and pacifists, it took Pearl Harbor to "awaken the sleeping giant". It actually created a giant "superpower" as we like to refer to ourselves. Then on Sept. 11 the giant awoke again. If something like 1939 were to happen again, we will be there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]