[Leaning Right]

I'm no fan of FDR's domestic policies. But FDR moved decisively and effectively to crush both Hitler and Tojo. And he did it in just 3 1/2 years.

Contrast that with America's dithering since 1945. Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf wars, Afghanistan.

So I give credit where credit is due. FDR was not a perfect wartime leader. But he was a very good one.

[Rome2000]

It's great that FDR led effectively in WWII, considering that he was a socialist war monger who provoked the Japs into attacking Pearl Harbor by conducting economic warfare aiding the Chinese and British in a war we had no business in.

All of that death and destruction for what?

We are all chummy now with the Germans and the Japs, and thousands of Americans died for nothing.

Unlike the ragheads, who we will never be friendly with unless we westernize them by force, I'm not a big fan of getting peoples kids killed in a fight with an enemy that we are allied with soon after.

[Sequoyah101]

And nobody else, faced with the same circumstances, would have done the same thing? Even Wilson went to war eventually.

Yes, others have dithered, others have not.

I can’t give exceptional credit for meeting standard expectations.

Churchill, as much as anyone, led a decisive global response as did Stalin if the truth is told.