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qb_rms · 02-19-2003, 07:21 PM

I don't know about that. I think the reason the US is so strong today is because they entered the war half way through (one of those "my glass is half full, my glass is half empty"). They had to build up a military in a relatively short time which employed many people in factories (they hadn't had jobs for some time due to the Great Depression).

But I think that if France hadn't helped the US gain independence, Britain would have been such a superpower that they would have been the agressors of WWII, not Germany.

But it is true, we did save them from the Germans. And they helped us gain independence. So what is the big deal.

They had to help us in order for us to save them.

02-19-2003, 07:21 PM	#5 (permalink)
qb_rms Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Arizona Posts: 62	I don't know about that. I think the reason the US is so strong today is because they entered the war half way through (one of those "my glass is half full, my glass is half empty"). They had to build up a military in a relatively short time which employed many people in factories (they hadn't had jobs for some time due to the Great Depression). But I think that if France hadn't helped the US gain independence, Britain would have been such a superpower that they would have been the agressors of WWII, not Germany. But it is true, we did save them from the Germans. And they helped us gain independence. So what is the big deal. They had to help us in order for us to save them. __________________ We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.