Uh, what?

[bjarvis]

Interesting news item... Britain makes final WWII replayments to Canada and US.

I'm not sure what surprised me more:
(a) that I didn't know there was an outstanding debt left from WWII;
(b) that it wasn't paid off long ago; or,
(c) that the US and Canada didn't forgive any outstanding balance decades ago.

I wonder what other financial commitments from WWII (or earlier) are still outstanding by any of the parties involved.

Comments

[apparentparadox]

I bet that they only paid up so that BushCo can't force them to join us in the next war we start.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Nowadays, the logic probably works the other way around: go to war when the US tells you to, or the US won't pay back what it owes!

[apparentparadox]

Um, I think that the US never pays back what it owes. I think that we haven't paid our UN dues in years.