Re: FWIW: ST Enterprise Cancelled

From: Pat Flannery (flanner_at_daktel.com)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:01:00 -0600

Peter Stickney wrote:

>
>
>The immediate casues of the U.S. Declaration of War were the
>resumption (several times) of unrestricted submarine commerce raiding
>by hte Germans, and Germany's attempts to keep the U.S. out of the war
>by getting whatever of our neighbors would listen to attack us.
>(We kinda take that stuff personally).
>
>

You can get a real good look at the true clumsiness of Germany's
appreciation of what their actions were going to cause the world to
think of them in Massie's "Castles Of Steel". You sit there and read
some of the things that the German Navy did, and all you can say is
"what the hell were they thinking?" Sending in battlecruisers to shell
seaside vacation resort towns? That's going to make you a lot of
friends, isn't it?

Pat

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