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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My referring to the destroyers-for-bases agreement as "lend-lease" was a mistake. The former was before we got into the war; the latter was after. And my argument was not that we extracted equal value for whatever we did.
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Lend-Lease actually became law in March 1941, several months before we were attacked at Pearl Harbor (66 years ago today -- wow).
I don't know what your argument was, then. I thought that the guy you quoted said that we used our position to take economic advantage of the UK. Citing Lend-Lease as an example doesn't seem to support that argument.
