[Vigilantcitizen]

Awesome read.

Very, very telling.

[Salamander]

It's a quagmire!®

[sionnsar]

Thanks!

[JediForce]

Great read....this must be sent to every news outlet, radio talk show, and government agency.

Keep up the good work.

[nwrep]

I demand an apology from the President over this pathetic handling of the post-war situation.

/sarc

[Diddle E. Squat]

media history repeats itself ping

[Diddle E. Squat]

FYI

[Malsua]

History repeating itself...or is it naysayers blabbering on as they always do?

[sailor4321]

Sounds like atrocious planning and inadequate force structure! Due, no doubt, to the intellectual shortcomings of the then-sitting President.

[Principled]

January 7, 1946

June 1, 2004

The more things change, the more they stay the same. (ehhh?)

[Dane]

The more things change, the more they stay the same(i.e. a defeatist press)

[nopardons]

John dos Passos was a sticking Commie and a fifth columnist.His books and plays are rife with propaganda.

Thanks for finding and posting this.It just shows that there have always been defeatists and naysayers.

[KellyAdmirer]

We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease.

It is weird to read that, knowing that this is precisely what the Iraqis are saying now, according to the liberal media. There is some flaw in the American character which seems to require that we feel the people we defeat must just LOVE us regardless of the fact that we had to kill boatloads of their countrymen and end their previous way of life. It's a sort of intellectual sophistry that says that any country that we wind up fighting is just chock full of nothing but good, honest people who will appreciate us to death once we take over from the few bad men that led them against us. I don't know if I would call it naive, or simply decadent, but anyone who thinks that the people of countries we bombed to smithereens are going to immediately love us and say favorable things to pollsters no matter what we do after the war is one or the other, and perhaps both.

[Petronski]

I told you diplomacy
was the way to go.

[ex-snook]

I was in Austria and John dos Passos is full of it.

[glock rocks]

ping

[doug from upland]

Thanks for moving this to news. Doh. I thought that is where I had put it.

[Hotdog]

Can anyone tell me what ever happen to John Passos...just wondered how history treated him!

[Lawgvr1955]

What was Roosevelt's exit strategy in 1942? Hell, its 62 years later and we are still in Germany and Japan.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Bump for later read.