[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.

[Woodman]

I have a Father-in-Law and Mother-in-Law who both were living in Post War Italy. All I have ever heard from both of them is that when the Americans came, things started getting better. It was Hell under the Fascist's, German's, British and the likes, but the American Troops were helpful and rebuilt their society. I'm sure there were bad apples back then as now, but look at the big picture and the reality is we saved that hellhole of a continent from it self, picked it up and put it back on its feet.

[Mike Darancette]

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

I imagine that is exactly how they felt in Poland, E. Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, .....