<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by talleyrand:

The US emerged on top for a single reason.
It was the only world power whose infrastructure, production facilities, and capital were not destroyed by the war. US native soil was shelled by a single submarine and subjected too two attempted forest fire bombs. Compare this to the damage inflicted on every other industrial nation on the planet, and those countries loss of capital and life compared to relative US losses.

[ 30 October 2001: Message edited by: talleyrand ]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

exactly!!!!