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The only weakness in this article is that FDR went to war against three nations, Bush is fighting against terrorists. That is like fighting a war on poverty or on drugs; how we doing on those wars anyhow?

Bush is fighting against terrorists. That is like fighting a war on poverty or on drugs

Perceptive post, I agree with you

I still don't know who hired the arab fanatics to carry out 9/11
I've heard international gangsters were responsible
opium production had been stopped, as a result of the war, it is now a bumper crop
My friend whose brother works high up for Dick Cheney told me a serious attempt was made during 9/11 to get both Bush and Cheney, but this has been hushed up
I've never believed Bin Laden was responsible
When billclinton was prez, because he is a gangster, he used office of presidency of USA to further gangster interests
it's quite a bonanza for gangsters to have prez of usa working for their interests
they may have been frustrated when President Bush took office
Whether they were responsible for 9/ll I don't know, but they have made out like a bandit with the bumper opium crop
Love, Palo

It also misses another point. FDR was quite willing to pursue statist New Deal policies during the war in fact he want to expand them after the war. The key practical problem which undermined this goal was that the New Dealers (when appointed to wartime positions) always screwed up. By default, to handle war mobilization, FDR had to rely on the "dollar a year" corporate types (who knew actually who to run things) rather than the starry-eyed but bumbling New Dealer types (like Henry Wallace).

Moreover, by 1943, the GOP was able to block the New Dealers because they had made congressional gains during the war. The best source on this The New Dealers War by Thomas Fleming.