[Semper Paratus]

My father was on the construction crew that rigged up the USS Missouri to make it accessible for a wheel chair not knowing why until he saw President Roosevelt being brought on board for the crossing before Yalta and getting the biggest shock of his life seeing how sick he really was.

[Tolik]

Nailed It!
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[nuke rocketeer]

This is one of the best analysis I have ever seen of our current foreign policy as realted to the mistakes of the past and the stubborn refusal of the 'realists' to face true reality and the interests of the USA.

[freedomfiter2]

We shouldn't be so upset that FDR handed Eastern Europe over to the communists, he did that to the US as well.

[malakhi]

Yalta has to be recorded as one of the worst failures of "realist" foreign policy in history.

I'm not so sure about that. Yes, Yalta was bad for Eastern Europe, but the author fails to suggest what a viable alternative would have been. The Soviets already had control of Eastern Europe. In my opinion, the real failure came later, when the U.S. failed to push for real elections and real independence for those countries. I can't really fault them for accepting the "reality" at Yalta, but I can for being willing to accept this "reality" as a long-term feature of the European landscape.

Thus did those who opposed the Soviets become "reactionaries" and "fascists."

Simplistic. Some who opposed communism really were reactionaries and fascists. And some who opposed fascism really were communists. And some who opposed both communism and fascism really were republicans.

[ZULU]

FDR was an evil man - a communist dupe and stool pigeon and a megalomaniac.

The only reason he didn't wind up President into the 1950's or even 1960's - an American Francisco Franco - was his fortuitous demise.

FDR - the Democrat Saint.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Simply put, FDR sold the people of Eastern Europe into slavery.