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Titles and authors of history books in question?

When we have war declared on us, it is not a case of rescue, but of fighting back. Now if FDR had listened to Churchill, it may be more accurate, although in the context of helping a long-standing ally with whom we have had a special relationship (denied by people like Obama and his ilk); but we had to act when it was almost too late, sadly, in diametric opposition to George Washington’s admonition in his Fifth Annual Address to Congress:

I cannot recommend to your notice measures for the fulfillment of our duties to the rest of the world without again pressing upon you the necessity of placing ourselves in a condition of complete defense and of exacting from them the fulfillment of their duties toward us.

The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war. …

Washington gave that warning in the context of relations with Europe. And twice during the last century, left-leaning Presidents showed weakness towards those selfsame continental European powers, Wilson in a particularly craven showing by getting re-elected on the slogan “He Kept Us Out Of War”. This time around, Trump is forced to fend off the impression that Obama projected to these old enemies.

All of that, but you never refute the reality of American coming to the rescue of Europe.....

“Lend Lease Act...Normandy, NAfrica, Italy, Convoys to Murmansk, 5th Bomber Group over Europe, The Bulge and liberation of France and into Germany.”

Then you ask for a book list? Do you have no basic knowledge of history?

BTW, I see Pooty-Poot has poisoned yet another. And he is about to sham his way thru another “Election”