Leaving Europe for a short period of time may be a good start, but it will surely engender mischief from the Kremlin and other sketchy characters. What should have happened was that we should have allowed Patton to push the Soviets back to their border, erasing Europe from a future of the Iron Curtain. But no, others seemed to think they knew better.
Idiotic. Sounds like you might not have been front line infantry.