[Thebaddog]

I don't disagree with your history. I remember that there was a lot of hostility towards England which might have been part isolationist and part payback for the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

But I also recall a passage in the wayback machine that FDR deliberately exacted a price from England for old destroyers. Britain had to give up something large for the ships.

[Verginius Rufus]

In return for the destroyers, the British gave us the use of certain bases.