NOTHING ABOUT THIS ON CNN! :-)
Seems like history is realy a teacher of life. Now the French again are not willing to fight terrorists. And we'll see what te result will be for France.
That's still sooner than the MSM will get around to the SwiftVets.....
Sadly, France will again live down to our expectations. It is worth noting that the Poles put up a real fight, unlike the French.
Yes, and like our friend John Kerry he dilly-dallied around, engaging in fruitless "negotiations," springing from a position of weakness, until someone was attacked. By then, of course, it was too late.
NOTHING ABOUT THIS ON CNN! :-)
I remember this day in 1939, it is seared in my memory. President Nixon ordered me to Poland to view the invasion.
Here's to our Polish allies, This day in 1939 started a series of terrible and gut wrenching events. Americans have never been tested like these people (thank god).
One thing is certain the Polish know the cost of freedom.
I salute the brave Polish citizens.
Considering what they were up against, yes.
Seriously though France had superior tanks to the early panzers, not to mention the numerical superiority on the western front in September 1939. All the Frenchies could muster is to sit smuggly behind the Maginot line during their "sitzkrieg" offensive.
In a way it reminds me of the left's response to Saddam: "Ok, technically we are @ war with him (GWI ended in a truce only) , but who's he gonna harm?"
There I corrected the title.
Hard to say....
On September 1, 1939 there were five German divisions between the French border and Berlin. Belgium and Holland could have mobilized more than 30 divisions between them. If the large, well equipped French Army had attacked Germany with conviction, they certainly could have forced them to disengage a large part of their army from the Polish Front. That might merely have given the Soviets (Russians, actually) a more Westerly starting point for the Russo-German War.
Had the French and British mobilized there armies, stationing strong formations along the Franco-German border in the Summer of 1939, it is unlikely that Hitler would have moved against Poland. Instead they merely talked and Hitler called their bluff. On paper, France was militarily superior to Germany. There was nothing from the previous war to indicate that the Germans enjoyed any qualitative advantage. The Battle of France (May 1940 edition) was a sympton of the moral and spiritual collapse France that continues to this day. It's really sad when you think about it.
Sigh... BTTT.