Posted on 08/29/2019 4:50:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Political discourse continues to be a discordant contest between haters and admirers of President Trump. But meanwhile, there has been substantial progress toward an improved strategic environment for the United States and the West.
Ever since Pearl Harbor, FDR produced the blueprint for all subsequent American strategic policy. In his war message he said: “We will make very certain that this form of treachery never again endangers us.” The United States must not appease its mortal enemies and must always retain the military power to deter a direct attack on it.
All 13 of the presidents who have followed FDR have minded those guidelines, though some have made a more convincing job of it than others.
Stalin, who precipitated the war with his Nazi-Soviet Pact with Hitler, ended up only with rather secondary strategic assets in Eastern Europe, where Russia was very unwelcome, and from which it had pledged to withdraw. The Cold War was another chapter of strategic genius, as Team Roosevelt — Truman, Eisenhower, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur and others — designed the containment policy of defensive alliances.
This was the concept of the “Free World,” even if many of its members, such as Iran, nationalist China, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, South Korea and most of Latin America weren’t democracies (though many did become democracies).
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I usually love Conrad Black’s columns. This one left me puzzled. I can only conjecture that someone else wrote this piece.
Really? Which part didn’t you like?
The narrative seemed to ramble a bit too much, I thought. It lacked the insights of his other works.
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