On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:09:51 -0500, "Tony Volk" wrote:

Remember the Monroe Doctorine. its for this reason that the US didnt
get involved. If Germany would have invaded a country in the western
hemisphere that would have been a differnet matter. Let Europe worry
about Europe was the motto of the day, for it was a foreign war.
But when we were attacked it no longer became a foreign war.
P.S. there was no western world or eastern world, only western
hemisphere(new world) and eastern hemisphere(old world). West and east
didnt come into play until the cold war. And the US wanted to keep the
war, and Europe out of the New World, therefore we didnt step in
theirs.

I'm not sure if this is an argument, or an agreement that France (now)
acted very much like the U.S. (then). It sure seems to back up what I said
before. Thanks for the details. Cheers,

Tony

You do not seem to be able to realize that the world was a vastly different
place in 1911 and 1941. At that time there were very few countries
capable of world wide destruction. Today, even a dump like Iraq
could, and did, attack many countries. The French were, as their
recent comments show, only interested in the money that Elf, etc
were making in Iraq. The French refused us overflight permission
in the attack on Libya, and hoped (as they did before WWII) that
"making nice" with the enemy would prevent them from being
attacked. They were wrong.

Al Minyard