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Originally Posted by Rochard
Churchill saw the wisdom in standing his ground. Hilter was a one trick pony - he would promise he wouldn't attack, would stage "incidents" and then claim he was protecting "Germans and German interests" and then would attack.
Sure, Churchill could have signed a peace treaty... And then watched as Germany build up in invasion force in France while Hilter start complaining loudly about how "Germans were being treated" in the UK.
He did the right thing.
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Of cause, history shows that but at the time, Britain was alone and had it's back against the wall and invasion was a real threat.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Not at all. Americans believed in brute force, not hiding in the darkness of night and maybe hitting the target. They wanted to destroy their targets, not play guessing games.
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Really? At the cost of their own pilots and proving pretty damn ineffective at hitting targets?
BTW, I spoke to an old WW2 soldier once after some British troops were killed in Iraq by American planes. He told me that even in WW2 "You always wanted to know which way the yanks were pointing their guns".
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