The irony of this being that Hitler was trying to find a well known scientist at the time, one who could actually build a nuke.That's no so ironic, the ironic part is that the scientist was jewish. his name? Oh you may have heard of him, Albert Einstein.
And for what's worth about America not wanting to get involved in WW2: The fleet always met in San Francisco, that year they moved the fleet to Pearl, not because it was a more defensible position, because it isn't, but to entice the Japanese to attack it. Not in the harbor itself, but on the high seas while enroute. Imagine how threatening it must have been for them to know our fleet was heading for a perfect staging area? Don't you think our government thought of this along time ago? We baited them. We didn't expect an attack on Pearl, and when it came it was more devastating than we could have imagined. 1500 lives lost. 2400 american lives in d day. Now i'm not going to whine about it, but before 9-11, those were the two most horrific death tolls due to any battle America has fought in, with the exception of the Battle of Gettysburg. How many people died in 9-11? more than both those battles combined. The facts are simple, if we had stopped Hitler in Poland in 1939, there wouldn't have been a WW2, and if we had stopped osama in the 80's 9-11 wouldn't have happened. We sit here and console ourselves into thinking that we are the greatest nation on earth, meanwhile, we allow innocents to die while we wait for someone to come into our backyard. Part of what i always thought we stood for was high ground. Not literal high ground, but moral high ground. My daughter says that people in the armed forces are knights because protect innocent people, she's 4 by the way. A four year old understands innocense. I won't be reading this post anymore. This damned thing hurts.
Somewhere in here we lost sight. The wanton waste of human life is a tragedy. Israel and Palestine are at war, but that war is far from conventional. Remember that the holy lands are holy to two religeons. That's what the war is all about. It's a holy war, And in the name of their god, men will perform greater atrocities than they will in the name of their mother.
And that's all i have for you.