I will give FDR (and Churchill) credit for one thing. Before WW II, most international wars were fought this way: Great armies would maneuver for a few years. Then there would be a negotiated peace. Someone would lose a few provinces, and someone would gain a few provinces. WW I is a good example of that.
But FDR and Churchill would have none of it. Hitter and Tojo had to go, along with their whole rotten belief structures.
I just wish George W. Bush had that same resolve with respect to radical Islam.
Even though I am NO particular fan of GWB, WHO exactly should we have defeated to end the scourge of radical Islam terrorism forever??
Yours, TMN78247
The job was left unfinished in both Europe and Japan, though. Adenauer was allowed to rebuild West Germany with “former” Nazis populating the Bonn government, and Japan kept their Shinto belief structure intact with a sizable majority still believing that the emperor was a living god even though he declared himself to be human under duress. Meanwhile, what does West Germany set about doing? Creating the beginnings of the EU, and a united Europe was what Kaiser Wilhelm wanted “against America”. Over in Japan, there is Nippon Kaigi, who are basically Shinto revanchists who wouldn’t hesitate to elevate the new emperor Naruhito to the status of a god.
“There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”
Islamist Turkish PM Erdogan
“I just wish George W. Bush had that same resolve with respect to radical Islam.”
If Bush pursued radical islam to the point of extinction, then we would not have our current endless wars that the swamp’s military industrial complex loves so much.
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