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Originally posted by Spanky
They were limited leases on non strategic bases. We got nothing.
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The British certainly felt otherwise. They thought we extracted all sorts of concessions at a time when they had no leverage. Those bases were hardly worthless.
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And protecting British shipping in international waters was an act of war. In case you guys forgot, we protected British ships with US Naval protection half way across the Atlantic.
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No more an act of war than the Germans sinking our ships. I don't really understand how you think we were supposed to be neutral in the fact of total war. Ceasing all economic activity with every country at war was hardly an option.
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In addition, the Germans never sunk anything in our territorial water.
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I don't know how you define "territorial waters", but you could stand on the beach in Florida and watch the ships burn.
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Wasn't the Atlantic Charter signed while we were still "neutral"? We were having summits with the head of state of a country at war while supposedly Roosevelt was doing everything to keep us out of war. Before December 7th we instituted the draft and were pretty much mobilizing for war.
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The fact is, he kept us out of war until Japan attacked us and Germany declared war on us.
