Posted by seldomseen on August 4, 2009, at 7:14:37
In reply to Re: america in afghanistan, posted by manic666 on August 4, 2009, at 6:26:58
Alright, I'm going to weigh in on this (very very carefully). It is my opinion, and just my opinion, that Britain would have never fallen to the Hitler Germany. I've read extensively on this subject and with Churchill at the healm and the manner in which Germany was launching the assault, I think the UK would have remained sovereign. I don't know if there would have been much of a country left. But the Brits would have rebuilt, just as they did after the bombings. Of course, given time, the Germans under Hitler likely would have changed their assault tactic, or succeeded in land invasion, but that is just speculation.
However, without the influx of allied troops from the US, I think the entire face of Europe likely would have been changed forever. Clearly Hitler's germany would have been repelled from Russia (who suffered *profound* civilan and military losses in this war), but most of Europe had fallen.
I think it is important for us all to consider the magnitude of these military and civilian deaths in the wake of WW2. Countries around the world lost millions of their finest young men. It was a horrible horrible time in the history of the world on so many levels - the horror of which I find difficult to gauge.
As the last of the surviving veterans on all fronts of the war are now leaving us, the living history of what they went through demands respect I think. I think we should continue to learn from it and not use it as fodder for argument. We ended up all in it together.
Just my thoughts.
Seldom.
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