When you get to this mb, scroll down to and click on "Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond", then scroll down to the first "David Phipps" post. [QUOTE]I think [Lott] was talking about the way that Truman just handed Eastern Europe, China, and Korea to the Communists. He wouldn't stand up to Stalin at the end of WWII, even though we had the manpower and the machinery to bury the USSR alive right then and there (not to mention the bomb when the Russians still didn't have it), and he wouldn't give the Chinese nationalists the help that they absolutley begged us for...