When churchill became Prime Minister in may 1940, uh, he was informed by the chiefs of staff. That any kind of victory that they could hook to gain would only come about through support from the United States. And this became one of churchills primary war aims and that was that was to woo america in general and its president Franklin Roosevelt in particular. After you are really couldnt do much to help the british even though he wanted to until after he won a third term in november 1940 that was because the United States had a large isolationist movement that believed that this country could stay out of the war anymore with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other which i think is perfectly encapsulated by this cartoon uncle sam. Add to that there was an organization in the United States called America First headed by a certified American Hero Charles Lindbergh the first man who flown across the atlantic in 1927 nonstop and America First was extraordinarily inf
When churchill became Prime Minister in may 1940, uh, he was informed by the chiefs of staff. That any kind of victory that they could hook to gain would only come about through support from the United States. And this became one of churchills primary war aims and that was that was to woo america in general and its president Franklin Roosevelt in particular. After you are really couldnt do much to help the british even though he wanted to until after he won a third term in november 1940 that was because the United States had a large isolationist movement that believed that this country could stay out of the war anymore with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other which i think is perfectly encapsulated by this cartoon uncle sam. Add to that there was an organization in the United States called America First headed by a certified American Hero Charles Lindbergh the first man who flown across the atlantic in 1927 nonstop and America First was extraordinarily inf
You have an x factor that has been eliminated from this equation of what we may or may not do in syria. As a consequence of that action. Thank you. Thank you for the excellent work when you are doing. Turkey doesnt want to become part of our combat operations because isil has hostages from turkey. At the same time, turkey has become the destination for the oil which has been captured by the isil army in both iraq and in syria. Its upwards of 1 million to 3 million a day, 300 million to a billion dollars in the course of a year. The smuggled oil has become the life blood of the isil army. Talk a little bit about turkey and what are efforts are going to be to shut that down. Without that money, they dont have the money to produce hollywoodstyle videos. They dont have the money to pay soldiers. They dont have the money to take care of cities and towns they are taking over. Talk about what we have to do with turkey to just get them to shut this down. Senator, its a very, very relevant ques
Foley. Thats not islam. Islam is not isil. Increasingly, all of the voices in the region are really starting to feel that they have a need to speak out and reclaim islam. Thats one of the most important things that could come out of this. Were working on ways to do that. So isil is not a state, obviously. It isnt remotely like a state. What we need to do is make that more clear. So let me share with you two important things. The home of mecca, which by the way are in the target scale of is isis, these are islams most holy cities, they days ago said of these murderers they are enemy number one of islam. That comes from the grand mufti of saudi arabia. Today, saudi arabias top clerical council, all 21 members, the only institution in the kingdom of saudi arabia that is authorized to issue fatlas, invoking mohammed, using the words of the koran itself, today they said isil are killers, they are thugs, they should be singled out and punished as apostates and made an example. They were not
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