McConnell WARNS GOP isolationists not to forget lessons of WWII

The Hill ^ | 06/06/24 11:23 AM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

[RandFan]

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning isolationists within his party on the 80th anniversary of D-Day not to forget the hard-won lessons of World War II and not to fall prey to “the delusion that regional conflicts have no consequences” for the United States.

McConnell marked the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France with a New York Times op-ed that lauded the “immense sacrifice” of American troops who stormed the Omaha and Utah beaches and scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc to capture German gun emplacements.

And he used the occasion to remind his fellow Americans and Republicans that GOP isolationists such as then-Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) opposed the Lend-Lease Act and wanted to keep the United States neutral at the outset of the war.

While many lawmakers in both parties have traveled to Normandy, France, to celebrate the anniversary of D-Day, McConnell noted: “We forget how influential isolationists persuaded millions of Americans that the fate of allies and partners mattered little to our own security and prosperity.”

“We gloss over the powerful political forces that downplayed growing danger, resisted providing assistance to allies and partners, and tried to limit America’s ability to defend its national interests,” he wrote in the Times.

The Senate GOP leader, who plans to step down from his leadership role at the end of the year, says he will make it a priority to take on isolationists within his own party and to push for the rebuilding of the nation’s defense industrial base.

McConnell for months has warned about what he calls “the rise of a new axis of authoritarians made up of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.”

[joe fonebone]

WOW!!!!
The arrogance from just a sentence is amazing...
In WW2 WE WERE ATTACKED!!!!
We responded to that attack with force.
Who has attacked us in the land of money laundering and human trafficking?

[PIF]

I guess you missed the sarcasm tag I forgot. Sorry you are so reading challenged.

[ansel12]

“””””There were no US consequences in WWII until FDR blockaded the ports of TOKYO. FDR knew exactly how the Japs would respond.”””””

You got that wrong, he didn’t do that before the war.

[Racketeer]

You’re right. It was the freezing of Japanese assets in America and the embargo on petroleum and scrap metal that forced Japanese aggression. FDR was a sorry SOB!!

Now ask yourself why the aircraft carriers were nowhere near Pearl Harbor on that fateful day of the December 7, 1941 attack? Certainly messages of the forthcoming attack had not been received. No way would FDR do such a thing!!

Are you sure about that?

[ansel12]

You were wrong about the United States blockading the Tokyo Ports before the war, quit ignoring that and accept your error.