To: n230099
Unfortunately, FDR saw Stalin and the communists as our friends.
9 posted on
02/23/2006 6:52:35 PM PST by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
It's the whole "enemy of my enemy" thinking that almost always brings nothing but trouble.
11 posted on
02/23/2006 6:57:21 PM PST by
inquest
(If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
To: wagglebee
If Hitler was a perfect 10 on the evil scale, Stalin was 9.9999999999999999, but the reality is we would have had a lot tougher time doing what we did in Western Europe if the Russians hadn't done what they did against the Germans on the Eastern Front. In short, we had no alternative but to dance with that particular devil from late 1941 to the middle of 1945.
12 posted on
02/23/2006 7:00:46 PM PST by
GB
To: wagglebee
FDR was a fool for so doing.
General Patton had every single right to defy FDR's agreement to hand Czechoslovakia over to the Soviets.
FDR sold them out, and I am certain that had we told Russia to piss off, the USA could have kept CZ and SK free.
15 posted on
02/23/2006 7:22:09 PM PST by
Emmet Fitzhume
("Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure." President Reagan)
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