Posted on 05/20/2005 7:49:59 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Greeley is pathetic. He must think his collar is hiding his condescension and hate. Yeah, right Greeley, tell us about lying!
Classic debating technique. Mischaracterize the other side's argument, then knock it down.
Neither Bush nor anti-communists have ever suggested that the U.S. should have continued WW2 against the Soviets. Rather, the Yalta agreement gave tacit approval to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. What Roosevelt could have done is to demand that after the war, the Soviets remove themselves from otherwise sovereign allied or non-aligned nations like Poland, Baltic Republics, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
Anyway, what a GOOFBALL the Sun-Times has on its editorial staff.
This man is a communist and a disgrace to all Catholics.
Well, actually, we are.
The liberal, socialist apologists have nothing but the same old lies, over and over again. It has the one advantage of making them totally predictable.
Your observation is unfortunately, correct.
Good point. What Greeley also ignores is that Yalta was merely the culmination of years of efforts by Roosevelt to prevent Western troops from ending up in Eastern Europe. Churchill tried over and over to get Roosevelt to permit campaigns that would put us in Eastern Europe to no avail. In addition, Patton was prevented from moving into Eastern Germany toward the end of the war.
IMHO, Yalta was what Roosevelt had in mind all along.
This guys a real POS. Every column from him hangs like a bad fart.
We sentenced those people to nearly 50 years of hell. You are darn right an apology is in order. This is an acknowledgment that Roosevelt (my family's patron saint) lost the whole poker game with Stalin at Yalta and failed to heed the advice of the greatest man of the century, Winston Churchill.
We gave back territory in Eastern Germany. We pulled our troops back and allowed Soviet troops to pull up and occupy it. Greeley is a modern day Alger Hiss, a stinking liar, and a communist. He still loves and reveres his favorite nation, the Soviet Union.
Actually, if we demanded that the Soviet Union withdraw to its previous borders, and they neglected, and we massed troops on the borders, cut off all trade and blockaded the them from trading with all nations, put forces in China (in effect, saving China from communism) while British forces could move up Central Asia, the Soviet Union would be bottled in and after seeing two A-Bombs in Japan it is more than likely they would back down. And if not, we could build some more and have another demonstration over Stalingrad and the Soviets would have little to no choice but to surrender to all U.S. demands.
I don't and won't second guess FDR at Yalta. But this quote from the article says it all as far as I'm concerned. The US was not equipped to do what's described above. The war had taken a tremendous toll on all involved. The only other option was to nuke Moscow which was not a decision to be taken lightly. After VE day with the Russians being just as big heroes as the Americans, it would have been very hard to do. The American public would have never accepted this immediately after WWII. By the time the real threat of Communism was apparent it was too late.
I believe the apology is very valid and that the commies (both here and abroad) never owned up to their complicity in starting the war.
I have a cousin who was in an Armored Recon unit who has told the story of having gone through what became East Germany and was on the outskirts of Prague when the war ended.
He said they stayed a bit and then were ordered to pull way back and let the Red Army move in.
So this yo-yo has it wrong as I suspect is usual for him.
I'm not convinced we need to apologize, but Russia as well as people like Tito, Ceaucescu and other Communists or pseudo-communists (Tito) that are now long dead, had a whole lot to apologize for. I think the US did the best it could under the circumstances.
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