On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:12:34 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:49:12 -0500, Michel Boucher wrote:
>>
>>> Dave Smith > wrote in
> news:4a245829$0$31514
>>> :
>>>
>>>> The US does not have a great record in winning wars single
>>>> handed. Sure they have done well with coalitions, and did help to turn
>>>> the tide during two world wars that they tried to sit out.
>>>
>>> Indeed, their record on both WWI and WWII is nothing short of blindingly
>>> self-interested until Dec 9 41 when Hitler declared war on them. Had he
>>> not done that, Canadians would have had to save Europe all on their own.
>>
>> ...and possibly done so without beating their chests about for sixty years
>> afterward.

<snips>

> All that said, the US has a right to be proud of what we did during WWII,
> but we need to acknowledge what others did, too...
>

yes, of course. what i'm thinking of is the drunks down at the VFW hall
mumbling about how 'we saved their asses in The Big One...' and therefore
they should kiss *our* asses forevermore.

blake