Our national survival was at stake. In WWII we made deals with totalitarian Communists and with the Mafia. We did horrible things such as obliterating entire cities - civilians be damned. War isn't pretty and you don't get to just deal with choirboys when conducting foreign policy. Sometimes you have to do some shitty awful things like employing some Nazis, backing some 3rd world tyrants, etc. Playing Pollyanna is not going to result in a better world. It will result in a worse one. The Commies never hesitated to do awful things and had they won, the world would have been much worse off.
Politics and war make the strangest of bedfellows. One must be careful however of going too far down the road named ‘the ends justify the means’.
Yeah I remember that bullshit propaganda as a kid, constantly living in fear of being bombed by Russia...air raid drills in school. I remember Khrushchev pounding his shoe on the desktop at the U.N., saying "We will bury you." If anything, the man should have bombed us after they refused to let him go to Disneyland. I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, this country fighting a proxy war with Russia and China in Vietnam, the building of the Berlin Wall that none of the German-based allies wanted to do anything about. When the wall fell, I thought I'd never see the day when this country would turn into a third-world commie shithole...but it has.
The problem is, that after all is said and done, after all these years, the threat to our security is still there, our national survival is still at stake, and getting worse all the time, and it's mostly because of policies this government has created. Getting ahold of those Nazi scientists really helped save this country from being invaded, and taken over, right?