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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Maybe so. I was citing the destroyers-for-bases agreement, and was mislabelling it as lend-lease.
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Fair enough, though I agree with Sebby that it was a fair trade.
How about considering Lend-Lease as a counterexample then? If we really wanted to bleed John Bull dry, then why did we loan them the garden hose?
And there were people who wanted to bleed them dry, and continue the "cash and carry" policy until the crown jewels were hocked and moved to Chicago, but FDR wasn't one of them.
And our postwar conduct was even more selfless. Marshall Plan? (I know -- it was just to make the Commies look bad, and to preserve our market for Lucky Strikes and Coca Cola.)
