--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure Nabby is German, and just for the record, 
Americans
> > performed the Berlin Air Lift for free.
> > 
> > 
> 
> **************
> 
> The Americans didn't give a damn about the Krauts, who they burned, 
> men, women and children by the hundreds of thousands in the 
pointless 
> firebombing of German cities in WWII. The Berlin Air Lift was not a 
> humanitarian gesture, but an attempt to keep the Russkis from 
taking 
> over more of Germany as their exclusive military outpost (rather 
than 
> the Americans keeping their many bases in Germany). 
> http://tinyurl.com/2d4hy6
>
I remember my business law teacher in high school refer to this event 
as a whimp out by Kennedy because at that time, the US had the 
dominant nucleur position over the Russians and could have simply 
blasted the wall down. The Russians would have been in no position to 
respond. 

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