Re: OT: American flyers bomb their allies AGAIN !

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:20:29 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



John Fields wrote:

After all, you guys tried head in the sand appeasement, assuming
that Hitler would leave you alone, why?

Why ?

Firstly it wasn't 'head in the sand'. Britain was already building up its military
at the time of the 'Munich Agreement'. Britain didn't have the world's first
integrated air defence network by the time of the battle of Britain by accident you
know ! Work started on it in 1935. And how do you think we had (just) enough
Hurricanes and Spitfires in time ?

Secondly, what exactly do you think we alone could have done about Hitler's plans
for (notably) Czechoslovakia ? It's not as if we even had a land border with
Germany.

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In the first place, you and the rest of Europe could have at least
_tried_ to enforce the Treaty of Versailles instead of allowing
Hitler carte blanche in building his war machine.


From: http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob66.html

.... Munich Agreement, generally regarded as the shameful culmination
of the Allied refusal (and inability at that time) to confront Nazi
aggression.


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JF
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