[ansel12]

However, even on his deathbed, FDR could run a world war and win.

Compared to what, not running it, not winning?

Roosevelt was a disaster as a war time leader, look at what the result for the west was in 1945, it was his results that millions of us were still enlisting to hold at bay for almost the following half century, as it also bled our national treasury and made our federal government all powerful. A nation cannot afford many "great" leaders like Franklin Roosevelt.

[pietraynor]

Lets not forget that FDR put a stop to General Patton marching into Berlin. We must let the Russians take it they have given up alot of blood for it. My butt! Also patton was right that we should have continued right on to Moscow. Churchill was in agreement. FDR nixed that also. What did we have to show for it? A 50 year cold war spending hundreds of billions of dollars defending Europe. Quite possibly Mao would have had second thoughts about his uprising in China if whe had kicked the Communists out of Russia.