[Terpfen]

I can imagine your logic being applied in WW2.

"Spy? Us? America on Germany? Why, that's something that only those underhanded Nazis would do! We're too good and proud to gather information."

In half-jest, I recommend placing an order for a backbone as soon as possible.

[pcottraux]

Oh, you are being SO unfair to me.

I'm all four spying on enemies if they want to KILL or INVADE you!!! The people at "CAmp Casey" are a bunch of liberal narcissist blowhards who are self-righteous and self-important. I cannot think of any conceivable reason to "spy" on them.

[norton]

""Spy? Us? America on Germany? "

Quote from 'tween the wars, I've forgotten the source:

"Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen's mail"

[El Gato]

"Spy? Us? America on Germany? Why, that's something that only those underhanded Nazis would do! We're too good and proud to gather information."

There was some of that attitude in the State department during the inter-war years. "Gentlemen don't read other's mail". We couldn't read enough of their "mail", especially their military codes, and that got us Pearl Harbor 12-7-41.

[Gumlegs]

"Spy? Us? America on Germany? Why, that's something that only those underhanded Nazis would do! We're too good and proud to gather information."

In fact, that's exactly the "logic" used to shut down American cryptanalysis. The (in)famous quote from Secretary of State Henry Stinson, "Gentlemen do not read each others' mail," was as wrong as it gets -- on many levels.