Someone needs to develop a commercial with Winston Churchill’s famous quote “Never have so few given so much..” with video footage of the brave WW2 RAF soldiers protecting their homeland followed by a frowning Churchill saying “For this?”. Winston Churchill is rolling over in his grave and Hitler and Satan are having a nice laugh.
Interesting article on the feud between FDR & Churchill on Britain’s *empire* which Winnie wanted to keep and FDR wanted to dissolve.
http://american_almanac.tripod.com/FDRlw95.htm
On May 10, 1982, Henry A. Kissinger mounted the podium at Chatham House, the London home of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, to deliver the keynote address for the bicentenary celebration of the Office of the British Foreign Secretary. Kissinger boasted of his loyalty to the British Foreign Office on all crucial matters of postwar policy matters in dispute between the United States and Britain. The crux of his disagreement with his own nominal country, the United States, he told his audience, was the basic dispute in policy and philosophy between ``Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, reflecting our different histories.’’ Roosevelt, Kissinger stated, had condemned Churchill as being ``needlessly obsessed with power politics, too rigidly anti-Soviet, too colonialist in his attitude to what is now called the Third World, and too little interested in building the fundamentally new international order towards which American idealism had always tended.’’
It is Churchill who was right, and Roosevelt, who was wrong, in these matters, said Kissinger.