Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

"Jeffrey C. Dege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:28:34 -0800, MasterDebater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> >It is highly unlikely that the UK could have survived the war without
> >American assistance, and I believe that the Soviets would be unable to
> >defeat the Nazis without American assistance. In fact, I think that only
the
> >Americans had the ability to defeat the axis powers unaided.
>
> The US didn't have the manpower to invade a unified Europe on its own.
>

I disagree.
A. It is not clear that America would be required to invade Europe. B-29s
carrying Atom bombs would do the job nicely, eventually.
B. Although A above is certain to bring about a Nazi defeat, I believe that
England would still allow the US to build up forces there (in England) and
to launch an invasion from there since England would, upon seeing Germany
devour all of Europe, fear a German invasion, and therefore, though perhaps
nominally neutral, would probably cooperate as much with America in this
hypothetical situation as America did with England, historically, prior to
historical American entry into the real war. America's industrial capacity
was the match of the rest of the world combined, and would have remained
untouched as it geared up for total war. Germany would be bombed, as
historically done.
C. And even though I believe that either A. or B. above are sufficient to
show that America could have defeated Germany, let me point out that America
could have invaded Southern France, Sicily, or North Africa, all of which
would have pitted an American invasion force against hostile and aggressive
superior Axis air cover, but that is not too different from the situation of
the actual Torch landings.