I have never understood why Churchill and FDR went to war to free Poland of Hitler, then sat by and allowed Poland to come under Stalin's domination.
To: Poohbah; Catspaw; deport; dighton; BlueLancer
Lord Haw Haw speaks again.
2 posted on
07/16/2003 6:40:43 AM PDT by
Chancellor Palpatine
(...guess we could call him Berlin Pat along with his other sobriquet, Baghdad Pat...)
To: Theodore R.
3 posted on
07/16/2003 6:40:44 AM PDT by
Catspaw
To: Theodore R.
To: Theodore R.
Great Britain went to war with Hitler,we had war declared on us by Germany after Pearl Harbor.Roosevelt seemed naive,dumb or worse when Yalta agreements were reached.Alger Hiss,Soviet spy was at his side advising Roosevelt and the rest is history.(Simplistic review,I know)
5 posted on
07/16/2003 6:45:24 AM PDT by
MEG33
To: Theodore R.
And don't forget, there are many of them left in positions of power and authority who still wish to promote stalin's ideals. Expose them where they are found, force them to admit their views; remove them from power.
7 posted on
07/16/2003 6:56:44 AM PDT by
ampat
To: Theodore R.
"Treason" - great book, required reading. Buchanon has written what amounts to a good review. Thanks for the post.
8 posted on
07/16/2003 6:58:01 AM PDT by
hauerf
To: Theodore R.
This is a theme of Ann Coulter's brave book, "Treason," which is a heroic defense of that most reviled of patriots. Joe had his flaws and made his mistakes, but on the century's great issue the mortal struggle between America and the evil empire of Lenin and Stalin for control of mankind's destiny Joe was right and his enemies worse than wrong. One of the things I always found entertaining about all this is something the liberals move heaven and earth to try to bury. Joe McCarthy had a couple of lieutenants that did a great deal of heavy lifting. One was a guy by the name of Roy Cohn.
The other was Robert Kennedy. And that's the rest of the story.
9 posted on
07/16/2003 6:59:21 AM PDT by
stevem
To: Theodore R.
Third, was America gripped by a McCarthy-induced "hysteria" in the 1950s? Total nonsense.Fourth, did McCarthy's tactics advance the cause of anti-Communism by one iota? No.
Sorry, but having one's heart in the right place only counts for liberals.
To: Theodore R.
Buchanan makes a much better case for McCarthy than Coulter, but he doesn't overcome the suspicion that McCarthy made reckless claims and ultimately hurt the anti-communist cause at home and abroad. A stilletto can do some of the work a bludgeon can with fewer unwanted side-effects.
The broader question that goes far beyond McCarthy is how deep political controversies and demands for orthodoxy should enter into our private lives. It may be that all of the internal security and communist hunting measures were justified in the 1940s and 1950s but just what the boundaries between dissent and disloyalty are is always a living and hotly debated question, now as well as then. I get the feeling Coulter is riding high on the emotions of the moment and not looking at the deeper problems and consequences that highly politicized ages bring with them.
33 posted on
07/16/2003 3:05:50 PM PDT by
x
To: Theodore R.
Thank for posting this fantastic article. A hale and hearty bump for one Patrick J. Buchanan.
To: DPB101; HISSKGB; backhoe; nopardons; quietolong; marron; Stultis; NormsRevenge; RaceBannon; ...
McCarthy Was Right Ping List.
To: Theodore R.
Alger Hiss was at FDR's side at Tehran.
48 posted on
07/18/2003 6:34:54 AM PDT by
Tribune7
To: Theodore R.
A great deal of the tragedy that followed WW II had as much to do with Roosevelt's and even Truman's distrust of the Brits as it did with sympathy for the USSR.
When the American troops didn't race across Germany but waited for the Russians to take Berlin it was partly as a reward to a "gallant ally," but it was also partly resistance to what Roosevelt considered Churchill's imperialist scheming against the Russkies.
After the war did the American people really have the stomach to take on the Russians even when it became obvious that they were gobbling up Eastern Europe? I doubt it. We didn't want to be imperialists like the Brits had been. And we were just plain war weary. The great passion of the late 40's and early 50's was in the returning GIs to get on with making a life; a civilian life.
52 posted on
07/18/2003 7:01:07 AM PDT by
ricpic
To: Theodore R.
"And Ann Coulter is a public defender who believes that if the verdict of history is a lie, she will appeal it till hell freezes over. And conservatives should be filing amicus briefs, not hiding in the tall grass."
Great line.
55 posted on
07/18/2003 7:31:26 AM PDT by
TheDon
(Why do liberals always side with the enemies of the US?)
To: Theodore R.
Since when did Buchanon finally start understanding our culture war?!
Nice article.
75 posted on
07/18/2003 10:33:41 AM PDT by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Theodore R.
First thing Pat has written that I agree with 100% in ages. I'm sickened by those beltway "conservative" pundits who are attacking Ann for being too "shrill" and mouthing the same old myths about McCarthy rather than dealing with the facts she presents.
76 posted on
07/18/2003 11:24:37 AM PDT by
Hugin
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