[Tallguy]

For over 60 years, Democrats and their allies in the media and public school system have taught that the Great Depression was an inevitable result of laissez-faire economic policies, and that only the Keynesian policies of the FDR government allowed America to emerge from the ashes. The Great Depression, for the left, provides conclusive proof that when it comes to economics, government works better than business.

This point of view has a sterling reputation. That reputation, unsurprisingly, was created by FDR himself. FDR turned the Great Depression into a morality play -- a morality play in which those in favor of individual initiative were the sinners, while those who relied on government were the saints.

This is a natural consequence of letting 1 guy steer the boat for so long. Eventually deeds morph into myths.

[SMARTY]

Churchill did not have a lot of confidence in FDR’s intellectual abilities. And, in reading about Stillwell and our experience in China, it seems that FDR’s war planning for the CBI theater was not what it could have been.