June 5, 2005

Re: Imperialism
Lem

Annatar, i totally agree with pretty much all of what you said. it's very true that america wasn't even planning on getting invovled in "europe's war" until japan attacked pearl harbor. the us policy was isolationism at the time, and the people were staunchly against joining the war.

and i agree that britain deserves credit for standing up alone to hitler before the americans decided to join in! a lot of europeans had pretty much retreated there and they were fending off plenty of german air raids/attacks while the rest of the continent was pressuring them to fight. sorry for the useless explanation, i'm studying for history exam at the moment

and about drilling for oil in alaska: from what i understand, the us isn't doing so yet partially to have a reserve if the arab countries boycott again or when they run out. they're keeping it as a backup plan

what i heard about guantanamo was that they burned the Qu'ran and flushed it down toilets, etc to torture the prisoners. feel free to correct me on that

oh, and on the whole anti-french thing, i think it's complete crap. i don't support the iraq war at all, and think blaming the french for not joining was ridiculous.