Re: DoD restrictions on GPS units

From: Pablo (jnaut_nospam_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:19:59 -0700

'cept we weren't a superpower before 1940.
<hist@ori.an> wrote in message
news:7EM3d.239759$bp1.36420@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> According to Karl Pollak <the newsgroup>:
> >
> > As for rushing into some wars, had Japan not bombed Pearl
> > Harbor, who knows if you would have been in any war at
> > all. The USA did not rush into any battle in WWII, you were
> > dragged into it, screaming. kicking and clawing.
>
> Had Hitler not declared war on the US after Pearl Harbor, the
> US might have stayed in the Pacific, and left Europe to the
> Europeans.
>
> It's a hard life being a superpower :-) We get slammed if we
> do invade, and we get slammed if we don't invade. If we
> invade early, which is when an invasion is most effective, we
> get really slammed.

While I agree with your point, I have to point out that we weren't a
superpower before WWII. We were just another 'playa' on the scene. We like
to think of the U.S. being a superpower at all times because, well, we just
don't remember a time when it was different. People have short memories.

Paul

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