On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 10:05:28AM +1000, John wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 08:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:46:29AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > >> > >[snip] > > > >>To make an observation, Americans have this bizarre superiority complex. > >>Oregonians, and to a lesser degree, Idahoans, tend to look in from the > >> > > > >It's not a "bizarre" superiority complex. May not be valid, > >but certainly not "bizarre". I can list 1,000 US accomplish- > >ments, not the least of which is making sure that Aussies aren't > >not speaking Japanese, and the Brits now speaking German. (Yes, > >you fought the Battle of Britain, but without the US Navy , for > >all intents & purposes fighting the Battle of the Atlantic with > >the Royal Navy well before 07-Dec-1941, Admiral Doenitz _would_ > >have starved you all into submission...) > > > Hmmmm, OK, flamewar started... > > 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.
Don't take it too personally. Some Americans get all their info from movies or the glorified history :) He gets many points wrong - Brits are not speaking German because of the Russians not the US. US wanted to _stop_ aiding Britan before Perl Harbor because Britain could not pay the bills - it was with the help of Canada and others that Britain did not starve [I guess, thank you Americans goes there :-] Americian view of WWII was "another European conflict" and they only had business interrests in it, well, until a few ships got sunk. And why the heck do I say that "Brits are not speaking German because of the Russians"? Well, German army lost 7 out of 8 soldiers in WWII in the Russian campaign. Also, for anyone that might be interrested, out of about 50 million people that died, ~50% of them were of the former Soviet Union origin. Over 10 million were civilians. Plus Hitler did not want to invade England or have a war with the west - he "only" wanted to exterminate most of the countries to the east to "create more living space for the Arian race". - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]