Discourse on Terrorism

Historical Significance Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun

almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy

and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their

convoys between England and America for food and war materials. At

that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most

Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage

Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on

Germany, which had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had

few allies. France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France

quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was

certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a

Thousand-Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well

on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia. Together, Japan and

Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as

launching pads to get into the United States over our Northern and

southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and

Europe. America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland,

Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it. All of Europe, from

Norway to Italy, except Russia in the East, was already under the Nazi

heel. America was certainly not prepared for war. America had

drastically downgraded most of its military forces after W.W.I and

throughout the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units

were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars

with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks.

And a huge chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl

Harbor.

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600

million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the

property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war

when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact). Actually,

Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the

German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next

day just to prove they could. Britain had already been holding out for

two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of

its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being

overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the

Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later,

and first turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was

on the verge of collapse, in the late summer of 1940. Ironically,

Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight for two

years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.

Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of

Stalingrad and Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation,

mostly civilians, but also more than 1,000,000 soldiers. Had Russia

surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war effort

against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis could possibly have won

the war. All