LISTEN UP OBAMA:
FDR said in The 1941 State of the Union:
“I also ask this Congress for authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations.
Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. They do not need man power, but they do need billions of dollars worth of the weapons of defense. The time is near when they will not be able to pay for them all in ready cash. We cannot, and we will not, tell them that they must surrender, merely because of present inability to pay for the weapons which we know they must have.
I do not recommend that we make them a loan of dollars with which to pay for these weapons—a loan to be repaid in dollars.
I recommend that we make it possible for those nations to continue to obtain war materials in the United States, fitting their orders into our own program. Nearly all their materiel would, if the time ever came, be useful for our own defense.”
During the Cold War we supplied anybody and everybody willing to fight the communists. They did as well-those who would oppose us. Cuba, N. Vietnam. Norks, etc. Now? Just not sure about this. The Europeans could step forward with the Carl Gustav. They should be more actively involved.