Posted on 05/08/2008 12:52:50 PM PDT by PurpleMountains
The underlying cause of World War II was the effort by Japan and Germany to take by force of arms resources they decided they needed to fuel their economies. Both countries were dictatorships; this is important because, under modern standards of conduct, democracies probably could not go to war for this reason.
Yet it is also clear that we would not be in Iraq if it were not for the fact that oil is the source of funds for the Islamic terrorists to carry out their atrocities on westerners, nor would they, without oil riches, be dreaming of restoring their caliphate; and we are in Iraq to protect our access to oil, as well.
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Screw the rules of Engagement. The war in Iraq would had been over by now if we destroyed towns like Fallujah and Ramadi. Then the rest of Iraq would get the message if they want to live.
Hmm does make more sense logistically. Free Texas!
Again, the motivation of both Hitler and his party was their ideological obsessions - not an economic strategy based on natural resources.
And the Brits had an empire to populate.
The British Empire was on its last legs in 1940.
They were effectively pushed out of China. Malaysia was overrun. India was hostile to their rule. The USA was long independent. South Africa was independent. Most of Ireland was independent.
The English were not happily emigrating in droves to the colonies while Germans were trapped in Germany.
The opposite was the case: plenty of Englishmen were pouring back into the UK from Malaysia, India, etc.
English emigrants went to America, Australia and Canada, where they were welcome. But there wasn't exactly mass emigration from the UK to any of these countries in the 1930s.
German emigrants had Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where they were welcome and where there were sizable German minorities.
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