Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How many volumes are you prepared to read? ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] Geesh - and we though camera people had it tough > Has the U.S. ever done anything morally, legally, or ethically wrong? > Enquiring minds want to know? ;-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Walker Smith > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:33 AM > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] Geesh - and we though camera people had it tough > > > > > > > >I think we(USA) were content on selling arms to both sides. Remember > >the GI's that wondered was Germany was driving Ford's? We're just after > > >the quickest buck. > > > > > So now we're "guilty" of engaging in commerce with nations who were at > war with each other? That's weak..... very weak. The US sold raw > materials and manufactured goods to the belligerants. So what? Are you > aware that when the US fought WW1, we did so without manufacturing a > single artillery tube? Our artillery and machineguns were manufactured > by the French & British. Only late in the war did we begin supplying our > > own machineguns to replace the ones supplied by the Allies. > > >Now if Europe and US had not let Germany continue the Submarine > >Warfare, WWII may have been different. > > > After a short occupation period on the fringes of Germany, the US pulled > > ALL troops from Europe, leaving enforcement of the restrictions against > German rearmament to France & Britain. The failure to prevent the > Germans from building their Army & Navy again doesn't fall on the > shoulders of the US. > > Walker > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >