I doubt that anyone would question the men and women of the 'West' that fought this war...And I am certainly no historian but I think I can see where Pat is going with this...
It's common knowledge that we didn't go to war to free the Jews...FDR refused to go to war even tho he knew about the holocaust...As I understand it, the American people wanted no part of the war, until our interests were attacked...
Pat, and George Bush make some good points...And some of those points are 'who did we liberate'??? Did the Germans want to be liberated??? Did the other countries join Hitler to defend against Britain and ultimately the U.S.??? Was the Eastern bloc better off under Stalin than it would have been with Hitler???
So as I see it, Pat's question is; was it worth 50,000,000 dead people to liberate people who didn't want to be liberated while handing over numerous countries with millions of people to a gov't that was as bad as the one they were facing??? We did get Hitler and thank God for that...But then came Stalin...
Are the people in Latvia and Lithuania glad that we 'won' the war??? I think it's a question worth considering...
This is a great post and one of the reasons I love FR. Pat might not be correct, but at least some posters are addressing his points rather than just reflexively calling him an moron or an idiot.
We are conditioned here in the states to automatically think of WW II in such black and white terms. It doesn't hurt to delve deeper into the matter though and get a deeper understanding. Our public schools would never touch this with a 10 foot pole.