"The Artist Formerly Known As Your Highness" BurnTheAstroCharts wrote in
message ...

Yes, that was our mistake. We should never have enlisted slave labor
from our puppet state of Great Britain to design and manufacture our
war material.


a tad short of historical knowledge here.

but I suspect the words "50 Destroyers" wouldn't ring any bells, a sad
episode

Jim Webster

Sorry if your grasp of history yielded the short straw.

All the "50 Destroyers" episode proves is:

1) Due to its own incompetence and spineless policy of appeasement,
Britain found itself in a predicament from which it couldn't extract
itself.

2) True to the British "we know better than you Yanks" maxim, the
Royal Navy refused to follow directions on how to handle these ships
in wartime conditions.

3) Churchill sucked as a negotiator

4) Thanks to this deal, I now have two very nice vacation homes in the
Caribbean.

It's just like you Brits to obsess and fume over the past and those
things about which you can do naught, though, isn't it? You should be
more congenial to your saviors. We're the only reason German isn't
your native language right now.


On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:00:00 -0000, "Jim Webster"
wrote:


"The Artist Formerly Known As Your Highness" BurnTheAstroCharts wrote in
message ...

Yes, that was our mistake. We should never have enlisted slave labor
from our puppet state of Great Britain to design and manufacture our
war material.


a tad short of historical knowledge here.

but I suspect the words "50 Destroyers" wouldn't ring any bells, a sad
episode

Jim Webster