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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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That deal pre-dated Lend-Lease. And Lend-Lease undercuts your argument, since neither Great Britain nor the Soviet Union ever came even close to paying us for the material we "lent" them.
The idea that we made Britain "sacrifice" their Empire to pay for the war is absurd (as an aside, "Imperial Preference" was a nice way of saying "No Goods From The US").
We made the Brits give up India, the French give up Indochina (really?), and the Dutch give up Indonesia? Please. And when did the European left start thinking that colonialism was a good thing?
I guess we did end up with Okinawa, now that I think about it. And the Mariannas, which allowed Jack Abrahamof to take Tom DeLay golfing, so I guess that he may have a point.
