I do wish the world was as simple as the likes of Shaw and Jom seem to pretend it is - factual reality, however, dictates that it is not.

What rights, what laws, what freedoms WE as "baby boomers" enjoy were all hard won by our parents and our grandparents by force of arms in two wars that they neither sought or wished for. As stated by Keith A above:

"IF US had not sold them to UK in 1940, Hitler would have won the war."