This is so easy, isn't it? The obvious sails over the 0bamabot's heads. What was in that Kool-aid, anyway?
I thought he did.
Forget the significance of Hitler — FDR pandered enough to Stalin in his socialist blindness and faux reality. It drove Churchill crazy, as it should have, when Churchill KNEW what Stalin was all about. I think FDR realized what and who Stalin was, and liked alot of his socialism and control. FDR certainly had enough communist friends.
Darn, this sure sounds familiar. Deja vu....God help us.
I love that title.
He did.
The “moderate NAZI” he spoke with was Joe Kennedy.
Neville Chamberlain thought there were moderate tendencies in Hitler that could be cultivated and exploited. If Chamberlain really knew what type of genocidal monster the Fuhrer was, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have wasted his precious time trying to talk to him. Similarly I’m afraid Obama does not realize that the Iranian Big Man may, like Hitler, actually mean what he says.
Moderate Taliban.
Moderate Taliban: "I'll plan a homicide attack on a bus full of kids"
Extreme Taliban: "I'll plan a homicide attack on a dozen buses filled with kids"
Whether we would have or should have cooperated with them is something we could thrash out, but Roosevelt did work with Stalin and also worked deals with Darlan, the Vichy French commander in North Africa, and Badoglio in Italy.
Okay folks, lets give credit where it’s due. The stopped clock is right twice a day.
‘Reaching out to moderate Taliban’ is the Afghan analog of the reaching out to moderate Sunni insurgents in Iraq that created the Awakening Movement. Splitting the Taliban by drawing off elements have become disenchanted with Al Qaeda and turning them into allies is good strategy.
And, if the plotters had killed Hitler and taken control of the Nazi government, negotiating with them would have been good strategy.