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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
To be more concrete, when we gave Great Britain 50 Lend-Lease destroyers in 1940 (their "darkest hour"), we extracted from them the rights to military bases on British-controlled soil all over the place.
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A concrete and totally appropriate exchange. There was nothing wrong with us taking any treasure.
Any suggestion our self-interest diminishes what we've done for Europe is ludicrous.