(QDurham) wrote in message ...
Hang in there Art. You are exactly correct.

Quent

Sure he is...imagine an alternate universe where Artian pronouncements
actually are true, what do you have? First, we look back and see Art
running around some base in Lower Saltlick, Kansas, training for his
B-26 mission....but alas, there are no B-26's to be had, since all of
those "shirkers" are not working their butts off at Martin producing
those same B-26's. But hey, this is Artian World, so we snap our
fingers and VOILA! Brand new B-26's appear...but uh-oh, now we have a
new problem, since Art has also said the war did not *start* in Europe
until June 6 1944...yep, the British, following Artian Law, have
folded their tent instead of fighting on through the dark days between
September 1939 and June 1944, so darn it, Art has nowhere to *deploy*
his B-26 to. Obviously it is time for another snip of the fingers...so
now the intrepid Art has arrived in his utopic Britain, and is ready
to give the Nazis whatfor (seeing as how none of the other folks seem
to be able to measure up to his truly tremendous martial qualities)!
But instead he is sitting in a muddy field beside his magically
produced B-26, with his thumb inserted in approriate orifice,
awaiting...what? Of course, there is no completed airfield (because
those REMF engineers don't count in Artian World), and if there was,
there is no fuel for his aircraft, no maintainers to keep it up (they
being those rather dimwitted EMs and NCO's that Art knows can't hold a
candle to edumacated ossifers!), no bombs or ammunition to arm it
(those worthlessly cowardly merchant mariners not of course existing
in Artian World), and to make matters worse, his belly is growling!
That's right, mess personnel also don't rate existance in Artian
World. Quick, snap those fingers, Art! Whew... much better; all of
those pesky problems gone away without having to actually resort to
having lowly real people handle them. So off he heads into the air,
heading towards his first European target in preparation for D-Day
(which, after all, is the *real* starting point of the war in Artian
World)...but hey, it looks like the German defenses are a heck of a
lot better prepared and more numerous than what he found in the real
world...could it be that his Artian World construct, which saw no
*real* combat in Europe before D-Day, has resulted in a Nazi Germany
much stronger than the one he faced in reality? After all, there is no
allied offensive ongoing in Italy to draw off German strength, no
great Eigth AF/Bomber Command attack on the Reich has begun, and there
is no great conflgration on the Eastern Front to draw the attention of
the bulk of the German war machine...

Yeah, sure he is "exactly correct"...perhaps in Artian World, that is.

Brooks