Ed Workman Wrote:
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> Please study your history.
> The US folks [ they were called 'isolationists']
> thought the oceans were enough protection and war
> could be avoided, all we had to do was just say
> no.
> sur PRIIIISE.
> Preparation for war was skimpy and a very near
> thing. The folks who were in the National Guard,
> enlisted before 12/41, or made the armed services
> their careers, were thrown into the gap without
> proper equipment, such as naval ammunition that
> actually exploded, torpedoes that would do the
> same,Aircraft that were already obsolete, WWI
> uniforms, poor leadership. Volunteers got little
> training. The Marines barely held Guadalcanal,
> using the M1903 Springfield rifle- 5 shots in a
> clip, bolt action, reload in the face of a banzai
> charge. The 1903 part is the year that the rifle
> was adopted.
> Yes sir we can avoid war by shoving our collective
> head up our ass .
> It took more than a year for the US to crank up
> the production lines, while a few committed folks
> held on to their lives just long enough before
> losing them.
> War is ugly- one can't say enough bad things about
> it.
> The current villians have been warned- boy you
> guys better watch out or ooooo I'll get really put
> out and you won't get invited to my party- I might
> even wring my hands.


You are right about our unpreparedness for WWII, and this nation was gratefully not very militarized until really after 1945, and especially after the Soviets attained the atomic bomb. We have been on a war footing ever since, and this is why Eisenhower so urged us not to be dominated by the military-industrial complex. He was not heeded, and 43 years later we gave billions of tax dollars to a Wyoming oil man to destabilize the Middle East even further, than the British had in WWI.