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"Well I do hate to say it but we've always had an "us or them" mentality to the rest of the world. I mean we were so isolationist that we were willing to watch
by xradionut 13y ago
"Well I do hate to say it but we've always had an "us or them" mentality to the rest of the world. I mean we were so isolationist that we were willing to watch Europe burn from afar rather than do anything. There's no telling what would have happened without Pearl Harbor; the U.S. may never have joined the war against Germany at all, in fact."
The rich would have made more money selling arms to both sides. (In fact some did.)
- dpe82 13y agoThe rich and their employees both.
- GoodIntentions 13y agoYou might have read this already. mebbe not. "wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0945001533 http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0945001533 You can probably find it as a pdf someplace too, as it is a pretty old book. Read it and try to see the difference between the US industrialists and German industrialists in the dock at Nueremburg. Same sh*t, different piles imho.