Don't insult someone who considers you a freind, Sam. We've communicated enough for you to know better than to say:
"I know you consider anything but the official history as taught k-12 to be revisionism"
as I bought very little of the standard line as I was being fed it and was always looking under the rug, or behind the curtain,.
And I agree with you 100% on WW1 ultimately being the cause of WW2 and, to add, ultimately setting up the spheres of power that got us the Cold war.
Does it need to be remembered that we were the "lender" in WW2 because we were more or less simply a banking vehicle or service, with the base collateral for all practical purposes still sitting over where the fighting was going on? We hadn't saved a dim as we roared through teh industrial age. Had no reason to. Too much real wealth was being created and being shared by, (or benefiting so as not to sound Marxist or something) so many, TR had cleaned up the system of crass plutocracy and things were gettin' done. Good things. Check the dates on the original certificates of constructionand occupancy on the millions of substantial residential dwellings in our cities, for example.
The allure that ultimatley got us in (and getting us in was hard, hard work for both the Anglo-Saxxons and the Huns). The U.S. public and it's representatives resisted the banks and the industrialists mightily, but finally gave in) may have been as much for continued assurance of that collateralization as much as anything. Our shores still weren't under threat in WW2 with the technology of warfare that had been developed by then. Surely dirigibles, bi-planes and bayonets weren't going to come on to our shores. The Red Baron wasn't going to come in cruising over Toledo.
And yet, the depressed conditon that is what was feared by loss of access to all of that good money? We got it anyway. Because somebody decided that it was OK to allow somebody else to try to make something out of debt driven speculation and then try to pass it off as real wealth.
We'd never allow that again now, would we.?
