Re: DoD restrictions on GPS units

From: Gymmy Bob (nospamming_at_bite.me)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:19:49 -0400

"Hitler declared war after Pearl Harbour"? I think he was dead at that
time...LOL

"Pablo" <jnaut_nospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:10o5cv4mjkp8a09@corp.supernews.com...
> '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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