@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:
Quote:Britain did more than its fair share to ensure that Europe defeated tyranny, and it broke us, but makes me proud all the same.
the Rebuilding of Europe should have made you very wealthy, like it did the USA, instead you hopped from crisis to crisis. Mismanagement after the war was the problem, not the war.
The why is more tricky. It looks to me like a failure of nerve, probably a form of PTSD resulting from the Nazi Rockets and becoming a military compound for years as you hosted USA forces, as you watched planes not come back and men set off in boats to die in France.
EDIT: for America the end of the war was much different. Loved ones of the dead moved on because crying over the dead was not going to help, the GI's that came back did not talk of all the evil they witnessed and participated in except among themselves, and the rest us us had money to make and the work of leading the world to do. We brushed WW2 off our shoulders and marched on. For what ever reason the Brits could not or would not do it,
You really are a spineless turd, aren't you.
There was me thinking that you were actually interested in the subject, when all you wanted to do was find some avenue to allow you to **** all over something with your perverted version of history.
You have absolutely no idea what destruction was meted out on Britain, have you?
No, your mentality is to jump straight into capitalist mode and see how fortunes could be made out of the rebuild.
Just check on how your armaments firms did over that period, and then check what has been mentioned earlier, about how much you charged your ally and how you made sure that every single bloodsoaked dollar was paid back. Payment after payment, right up until very recent times, every cent repaid.
We couldn't make a fast buck, like your carpetbagger mentality reckoned that we could. We were too damned busy trying to rebuild vast tracts of our cities so people could have shelter.
It is astonishing that someone can be so ignorant and arrogant at the same time.
