On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:09:36 -0500, "Tony Volk" wrote:

I'll probably regret getting dragged into this, but it smacks me as very
hypocritical for a U.S. citizens to question an ally for not jumping into
any war they wanted. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the U.S. dragged their
feet for a relatively long time to officially defend "peace, freedom, etc."
when they were threatened as never before or since (W.W.II). It wasn't
until their own country was attacked that they officially entered the war.
I am aware of their other efforts before that, but no real commitment of
troops was provided. Heck, the whole western world pretty much stood by and
did nothing as Czechoslovakia was annexed. I'm not anti-American, but I
think that before you throw stones, you might want to look around to see how
much glass is in your house. Regards,

Tony

Peace, freedom, etc. Those things that the French have never been
able to defend.

Al Minyard

The US was a neutral, you know, like the Swedes, the Swiss, etc. We had
just recently completed the clean up of a euro mess (WW1). The fact that
the French screwed up the Armistice was getting them into another mess.
We, quite reasonably, decided that, since Europe had evidently decided
that a war every few years was a good thing, we would decline to
participate.

Al Minyard