Not only a Poles but many other countries was flighting for you!!! so or me people like U are ................. (U can answer yourself)...
Go on Asmodan, finish the sentence, I'm sure you want to.
Can someone, particularly Asmodan, please point out a part of any of my posts that denied that Poles (or other foreigners) fought for Britain? Or that I believed Polish assistance wasn't welcome (or needed)? Because I must be blind, stupid and ignorant going by what you guys have posted.
I do know my WW2 history, and to say the BoB was won solely by foreign pilots is simply untrue. They helped and contributed, and maybe without them the outcome would have been different, but what would the outcome have been if you removed all the British pilots (i.e. the majority)? Poland, Britain, France and the res of Europe would be plunged into a dark-age that might never have ended.
As for post-war British foreign policy, this was largely driven by intense paranoia viz the USSR. Maybe it wasn't right, but you show me a country with a blemish free record of international relations and I'll show you a country that doesn't actually exist.
I'll ask the same question I've asked in previous posts - how could Britain realistically hope to stop the Germans marching through Poland in 1939. Tell me how the British Army was supposed to transfer men, tanks and munitions in just a few months AND fight a victorious campaign that would rout the Germans and avoid a global conflict. Also tell me how any democratically elected government could get the British people (who are still so very anti-war and could not tolerate any action that would be seen as openly provocative to the Germans) to agree to deploying troops along Poland's border with Germany?
Gentlemen, your use of hindsight is exemplary. But Chamberlain et al didn't have that; all they had was the public opinion that war was to be avoided at any cost. It gave them very, very little room for manoever.
Fd-ski - I agree with you about the UK's involvement in the EU. But it has to be right for ALL countries. To build a community on anything less would be to condemn future generations to great instability, the exact opposite of what the EU is about. Perhaps war would be the outcome. For this reason the decision to enter into a European Common Currency has to be a careful one; there will be no going back.
[This message has been edited by Dowding (edited 11-02-2000).]
