From: John G Harris on
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 at 21:37:37, in comp.lang.javascript, Kenneth Tilton
wrote:

<snip>
>Europeans... can you believe we bailed them out in WW II only to be
>treated like this? <sigh>
<snip>

U-boats were sinking US naval ships, then Germany declared war on the
USA. What was the USA to do? If it had surrendered and handed over the
Atlantic navy to Germany and the Pacific navy to Japan the president
would have been assassinated long before he could be tried for high
treason.

John
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John Harris