[Tau Food]

Agree. As Stalin was better than Hitler (for our purposes, anyway), Putin is better than the Islamic nuts. But, as I read history, FDR and Churchill did not turn over leadership of the war effort to Stalin. Similarly, we should not turn over leadership of a common effort to Putin.

Stalin was very unhappy with FDR and Churchill. Stalin was insisting that we open a western front much, much earlier than we thought best. Putin has a role to play, but the Western world is not stupid enough to just follow Putin's wishes all the time. And, in the end, ISIS will be defeated. They are the real losers here.

[sparklite2]

” FDR and Churchill did not turn over leadership of the war effort to Stalin.’

Hitler’s air war against England was stalemated; he didn’t have the naval resources to invade across the channel, the bombing of London accomplished nothing.

Both the bombing of London and Germany’s attack of the USSR happened a year before Pearl Harbor. The brunt of the war was taken by the Russians before the US even came in.

Leadership of the war is time dependent at best. I don’t recall Soviet troops ever coming under allied command.