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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (44691)7/12/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Joan,

I believe that FDR's personal decision to save England from Hitler and China from Japan was the principal reason for the U.S. entering world war II. The pro-communist left was very important. The ridiculous state of American armed forces would have led a rational leader to avoid all conflict instead of provoking the Japanese in the summer of 41 by freezing assets (virtually a declaration of war) or sending the fleet to protect convoys from German submarines in the fall of '41. Whatever FDR thought about the necessity (and I agree that it was great) he was willing to take awful risks. But I feel that he was the major cause, and it was based on culture and "blood is thicker than water" (Admiral Simms controversial toast before we entered World War I.
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