[Lockbox]

No, let's start with "What if we just let Hitler have Europe."

[Poohbah]

No.

Let's start with "What if we just let King George use the colonies as his b!tch."

[Eternal_Bear]

"No, let's start with "What if we just let Hitler have Europe."

We let him have all of Europe in 1940 from the Atlantic to the Soviet Border. We did business with him as England fought the Battle of britain. Hitler only declared war on us because he promised the Japanese that he would. At least Neville Chamberlain had the cajones to declare war on the nazis first.

[ml/nj]

No, let's start with "What if we just let Hitler have Europe."

I guess you're either stupid, or you're not interested in a serious discussion. (And BTW, we were in the process of "letting Hitler have Europe" until he declared war on us. Read some history.) Hitler was at war with, and attacking, countries very close to the United States in many ways. I don't know about you, but I don't give a $#!+ about Kuwait or Saudi Arabia. It might be argued that Hussein was threat to Israel, but until we attacked him, that's all he was. And when that threat became too much the Israelis seemed to know how to take care of things on their own.

Hussein came to us and essentially asked for permission to take over Kuwait. We said, "Yes," and then we were shocked, shocked when he did. Sure he did some things we ought not to have liked after we attacked him, but if you were an Iraqi, would you have expected anything less from your leader.

ML/NJ

[BlackVeil]

What if we just let Hitler have Europe As has been pointed out in other posts, the US didn't intervene when Hitler was all over Europe, it was the Pacific war that brought the Americans in. There is a serious debate among right-wing historians as to whether the Nazis ought not to have been left to go on the rampage, and fight it out with the Soviets themselves. Vast numbers would have been killed, but that is what happened anyway.

[DuncanWaring]

"What if we just let Hitler have Europe."

He and Stalin would have destroyed each other, and we'd all be better off.