Posted on 09/17/2007 1:50:50 AM PDT by OneHun
Of course I mentioned Potsdam. Since the Clintons, I am not too sure. Invading Morocco gave the Axis powers no chance to throw Japan under the bus and remain neutral which would have been a good move. There was strong anti British and pro German sentiment in the US. Not to mention anti FDR since the 4th term
barbra ann
now if on 9/12/01, Bush would have rounded up all known foreign Islamics, and put them in detention camps as a prelude to deportation, and then locked down the borders, then I may have the respect for him that is generally given to the socialist FDR.
The time was right for this and he could have done it then. But this one-world globalist president of ours had other fish to fry so as to cement his legacy. He is his fathers son.
Dad, passed away last September....and he was there in Aug '42 to help de-fester that Soloman Island. Semper Fi Pop.
He had Eleanor doing most of the leg work for him.
Meanwhile, Stalin, the leftist’s hero, was demanding a sanguinary and sacrificial landing on the French coast to relieve pressure on the Red Army, and his flunkies demanded “SECOND FRONT NOW!” in New York and Los Angeles.
Let us let the military men fight the military battles and the politicians to fight the political battles and let us not let the roles cross. Unfortunately, the Clintons don’t see the difference between the two roles; thus we have a Richard Clark.
The real winners of WWII? Germany and especially Japan. look at their economies.
“He had Eleanor doing most of the leg work for him.”
That’s bad!
“FDR, if not a military genius, was a very astute observer of humanity and knew to pick good men to do the job for him, such as Harry Hopkins as personal envoy, George Marshall as Chief of Staff, and Eisenhower as SACEUR.”
Good point!
Well hardly. The Battle of El Alamein was the descisive victory against Rommel. Operation Torch was an attempt to stop the Afrika Corps from escaping in good order. It was a good try, but the Germans got away anyway.
What about Guadalcanal....it was in August...... is an Island not land?
If we can WILL do it.
Africa or Guadalcanal first? How about Tokyo and the Doolittle raid? Regardless, Roosevelt always understood that Germany was the greater threat.
Very true, but how many people can read and understand a map?
Hitler had already declared war on the US on 12/11/41.
To a staunch Republican, Eleanor must have been more sickening than Hillary back then.
Consider last week’s disclosure of Syria’s purchase of nuclear materials from North Korea, and negotiations for the purchase of missles from the same source. Now consider that Saddam was in negotiations with North Korea for missles for Iraq at the time of our invasion and that North Korea was ramping up production of nuclear materials at the time. - A good case, standing on it’s own, for pre-emptive action against Iraq.
There are many Americans who do not have maps...
While an interesting article by James Lewis, and one that I do not take any major exception to; I do grind my teeth whenever I see the French characterized as our Allies during WWII. The fact is, when given a choice before we made the beachhead in North Africa (btw, our first, sort of OJT so to speak for later events), some French units chose to fight along-side the Germans. It is also humorous and ironic that today, over sixty years after the war, virtually every French person’s grandpa was a Freedom Fighter. Now there is some revisionist history for you....
Liberals go to pubik schoolz so them don’t know no history. Besides history would challenge their “beliefs.” Remember what Ronald Reagan said, “It isn’t that they (democrats, liberals etc.)don’t know anything. It’s that so much of what they ‘know’ is not so.”
And to most Democrats. Don’t forget in 1941 The Dems still held the “solid South” which is maybe why we were able to win the war. Today’s Blue Staters whold have sued for peace in the dark days of ‘42.
barbra ann
“This article makes FDR sound like a military genius.”
It was the Dirty Martinis.
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