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[quote]I'd show Eire's government in 1939 pictures of the Holocaust and ask them why they were so keen on neutrality and denying asylum to Jewish refugees.[/quote]

Lol.......I see where you're going................ me too!

Came in eventually, when it suited them because they came under attack.

But we'll agree to disagree.

Maybe so, but as Japan was part of the Axis agreement, war with them meant war with Italy and Germany too. Keeping some beacon alight in Europe might have been more strategically important than going all-out for Tokyo immediately.

America's biggest goal during the first 50 years of the 20th century was to break up the British Empire.

2 World Wars did that perfectly. America wanted Britain pummelled until they were no longer as influential on the world stage, and then came to help.

The best thing that happened for America in the last 200 years was Nazism.

Better awa' to bed. We can argue this some other time. (And I do have an argument)

.. the Brits, and the Rusisans too.
This seems bootless.

We've ALL been guilty at some time or another.
The only vaild question is whether we've grown out of it.

or the swedes?

Interesting how they've changed their position of absolute neutrality over the years