Actually when FDR trashed the US economy to implement his communist program, it hurt the economies of other nations who could’ve resisted the Italians, Germans & Japanese.
Sometimes, he’s like the old man.. he says stuff just to hear his own voice.
Newsflash: Confronting evil makes evil angry.
I don’t know where Rand Paul is getting his WWII philosophy which is a little screwy. Probably had Dad feeding him this line since birth.
But in all fairness nobody has had any luck stopping Iran from getting the bomb. If it wasn’t for the Mossad picking off a good number of their nuclear scientists they probably would already have it.
The only other thing I would say in defense of Rand Paul is that he did come out strongly to protest Obama’s insane decision to get rid of the Tomahawk missiles.
Most people running for President do not have a strong grasp of foreign policy. Its kind of an on the job training program. Once they take office and the Book of Secrets is put in front of them they usually wise up pretty fast. Obama and Jimmah excluded of course. :-)
Rather than the checkers/chess metaphor, I would say the Chinese have been reading Sun Tzu while we’re reading Dr. Seuss.
To a degree he is correct. Roosevelt wanted in the war very very badly.
The blockade in regard to oil and scrape metal may have impacted the timing, but not the adversary. In the 1920’s the factions formed for determinations to “strike north” meaning attack the Soviet Union or “strike south” meaning attack the colonial possessions of the French, Dutch and British. Either pattern of conquest would give them access to the resources they wanted. However, by the mid 1930’s the issue had been resolved in favor of the “strike south” faction that Hirohito supported. You can read a good discussion of the subject in Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy by David Bergamini and Hirohito by Edward Behr.
This imperial militarist society never contemplated the possibility they could achieve prosperity by peaceful commercial means as Japan if fact did during the 1970’s.