[MeganC]

“The U.S. supported Stalin during WWII.”

Something that utterly disgusts me. Russia and Germany started WW2 and when they turned on each other we should have let them slug it out.

[Dr. Sivana]

Something that utterly disgusts me. Russia and Germany started WW2 and when they turned on each other we should have let them slug it out.

Well, the risk there would have been ALL Europe being Communist. England was not able to do everything on her own. Once Hitler declared war on the U.S., we had no choice but to respond in kind.

We COULD have followed Patton's suggestion and fought the Commies when when we were still strong and they were quite weak after the war, but the national appetite wasn't there, nor was the political will.

Pat Buchanan echoes your point, and we will never know how that would have turned out.

My original point was that countries sometimes have evil dictators/countries as allies in times of war.

[CrosscutSaw]

Russia and Germany started WW2 and when they turned on each other we should have let them slug it out.

I agree. While it's true that Hitler declared war on us first, some good diplomacy beforehand could have allowed us to stay neutral.

We had to fight Japan because of Pearl Harbor, but who knows if that could have been avoided with prior diplomacy as well.

The US should have spent the war years building up it's military to defend against any aggression in North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Let Europe and Asia settle their own disputes.

[erkelly]

My parents and grandparents felt that way too. In fact, my mother said that everyone was saying that at the time. Let hitler destroy Stalin. FDR really was an evil man, one of a long line of wicked incompetent Democrat presidents but not the first.

[TexasGator]

“Something that utterly disgusts me. Russia and Germany started WW2 and when they turned on each other we should have let them slug it out.”

Uh, Germany attacked much more than Russia, Then there was Japan.