No argument at all on my part. England stood alone for 2 years and kept the nazis at bay while the US hid behind two oceans and hoped for a decent outcome. That is part of the reason, I think, why since 1945 we have been so eager to involve ourselves in conflicts we don't really have a stake in. " Plenty good money to be made supplying the army with the tools of the trade". As a point of interest though, on Dec 7th my father was on a troop ship waiting to ship out for Iceland. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1940 and as part of the whole lend lease/aid deal the US garrisoned Iceland to give air cover to UK bound convoys, freeing up British troops to go to North Africa.