As I recall my post...I never said we did it alone...I said we came to your aid. You say we came late...to some degree that is true but we were providing you the arms and equipment you needed. We did not aid the Germans despite our avowed neutral status. We were there in person before the Pearl Harbor attack too, read your history. We were escorting convoys before Pearl Harbor and lost ships and crews in that effort. Do you remember the destroyer USS Reuben James lost with all hands? The RAF had American Spitfire pilots, The RCAF had American pilots.
Yes, our beliefs in religious and personal freedoms are unique. Read our Constitution and Bill of Rights and compare them to anything you have in the UK. Remember, we not so politely asked you to leave in order to live our beliefs and your nation used force of arms to try to prevent it from happening. You lost that argument.
You and the European nations became engaged in two wars for reasons that did not involve us. Each time we came across a very large ocean, a barrier that protects us, and joined your fight. Each time we paid in blood and national treasury. Each time we returned our armies to our soil. Each time you were able to be on the winning side because of our assistance. The fact you may have had to pay for some of that assistance can not erase the later gifts, donations, loans, and credit that was extended.
I did not mean to embarrass you and walk over your national pride, but the truth needs to be acknowleged.
When we went to Berlin, we went in bombers and fighters, when you went to Hanoi you went with freighters and tankers. Don't talk to me about sitting out a war. The Aussies stood beside us in Vietnam while you were conspicuously absent. How many Brits fought in Southeast Asia beside the Allied forces there? The concept is the same.
We fought that one without you and we are quite prepared to fight this one without you as well. That is the thing about being the big brother in the relationship, you get to fight all the fights, those of your little brother and yours as well. But just as any sibling relationship, unity is the key.
I guess when we get through with this conflict that is coming...the folks that sit it out will be telling us how we screwed it up. Step on down here and show us how it is done ol' bean if you have the courage and resolve to face the enemy. We've blown the bugle ...anyone care to join us?
