Posted on 05/13/2004 3:08:45 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
I'd like to include one vignette that I think sums up the almost criminal incompetence of Roosevelt and his gang in dealing with the Soviet Union:
Having spared FDR the horror of riding one mile each day through the Persian streets, having appropriated his space and nullified his Secret Service, Uncle Joe drew him into a warm embrace. He told him that after the war he would grant freedom of religion, private ownership, and greater democracy in the Soviet Union, the name of which he would change back to Russia. Roosevelt, delighted with these unbelievable concessions, let Joe know that he could draw the postwar borders of Poland and reassume control of the Baltic republics with perhaps “some expression of the will of the people, perhaps not immediately after their re-occupation by Soviet forces, but some day.” Uncle Joe’s word—Stalin said he “understood”—was good enough for FDR.
That says it all. One of the more annoying characteristics of many leftists is that they assume they are so smart, so glib, so gifted at repartee, so endowed with good intentions that no one could possibly resist their charm and eloquence. Therefore they cannot possibly fail. Though this can and has happened with conservative politicians, I see it most often exhibited amongst the left. You saw it with FDR, LBJ, Clinton and Kerry.
The more I read about our national response to Communism in the 1930's and 1940's, the more amazed I am that we were blessed with victory.
FDR had been told we would have a million Americans killed when we invaded Japan. Japan like the Muslims believed that if you died killing an American you went to heaven and your family did also.
FDR and Truman after him were trying to get Stalin to help us defeat the Japansese. FDR and Truman figured that if we lost a half million and Russia lost a half million that was better than us losing a million.
HST and FDR were trading eastern Europe for a half million American lives.
Today we would rather Americans die than have a Iraqi get shamed. To many an American life is not worth a snail darter fish.
Odd thing is that it is Capitalism perverted by the Left in the form of cultural warfare or politics with a capital in Hollywood.
This Michael Moore film ripping off a Great Film has me hopping made.
The Culture War is intensifying.
The reporter asked the KGB agent if Harry Hopkins was a KGB agent and he sort of laughed and said something like "Lets just say he was very helpful to us" I took it to mean that he was a volunteer agent probably not completely under their control but still an agent of the Soviet Union.
Old Gumlegs (as W.C. Fields referred to him) was a socalist, so he saw no problem with a Communist. It was the next stage up! FDR ranks as one of the worst Presidents in history IMHO. Made the Great Depression worse, knew about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance and sold out his country to the f-ing Russians and socialism.
FDR did untold damage to the entire free world. No wonder the democRATs revere him so much.
bump for monday
That's very true. I was thinking of Newt Gingrich, who never seemed to have things under control. Also, George W., during the 2000 primary, seemed to believe he had it won already. A couple of quick losses were lessons he didn't forget.
I think he has also got over the idea that he could charm the likes of Teddy Kennedy and Tom Daschle.
Unbelievable. After reading this artilce, I'd believe just about anything.
There uncomfortable fact about a lot of leftists is that they saw the USSR as an "interesting idea." Some seemed to take a more reaslistic view. I divide American liberalism between folks like HArry Truman, who were big-government progressives, and John Kerry/Hillary Clinton/Moveon.org, who are aggressive cultural Marxists and want to remake American society in their own secualr humanist image. To the latter group, it's like a religious calling.
I regard FDR as somewhere in between, if that's possible. He was just ambivalent about Communism.
"FDR ceded the better part of Eastern Europe to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin"
Says it all.
Are you aware that there is already a FReeper by the name "tet68"?
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