On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 21:42, Dale Hair wrote:
>
> > Actually, the USA was asked to help Australia in 1939. We had the
crap
> > bombed out of us. After Pearl Harbour the USA decided that Oz was
a
> > great place to base a lot of Operations.
>
> Most Americans tend to be isolationists and pacifists, it took Pearl
> Harbor to "awaken the sleeping giant". It actually created a giant
> "superpower" as we like to refer to ourselves. Then on Sept. 11 the
> giant awoke again. If something like 1939 were to happen again, we
will
> be there.
Nothing like militaristic Nazi Germany will happen again
while the US is the lone "hyperpower".