In 1941 to 1945, the Roosevelt administration almost abandoned the Chinese government to the Japanese because they had diverted assets to fight the Maoist communists, who, backed by Stalin (who in turn was backed by unlimited Western supplies), were using the Japan-China war to move in for the kill against the government of the world's largest nation. The whole dilemma was whitewashed and kept out of the media ("smoothed over" was the term du jure) in the interests of finishing off the Japanese.
But the whole matter left China too weak to fend off the Marxist/Leninists as long as a liberal Democrat administration stayed in power in Washington, and retained diplomats and other officials who held the Chiang government in bitter contempt.
It was not until the Cold War, and the sudden realization that "someone lost China", that the Truman administration was replaced with the Eisenhower administration and the protracted conflict with world communism became a decades-long war. Indeed the American "liberals" still hated Chiang even after he moved to Taiwan and proved he could govern and build in ways the Maoists were totally hostile to.
We have the benefit of hind sight to tell us that Japan was finished by mid-1942, and the rest of the Pacific war was a cleanup, with China being a minor sideshow. Had we encouraged Chiang to go full bore against the Stalinist-backed Maoists, Japan STILL would have capitulated, and at the same time it finally did. But post-war China would have been a far safer place for civilization and a strategic asset in the protracted conflict.
But Roosevelt, like so many liberals, was FOOLED by Stalin, and the rest is history.
The lesson for today in all this is that we cannot condemn our current stance in the war with subhuman Islam because we used them to help bring down the Soviet Union. Times change and enemies change, and liberal sentiment kills nations trying to survive in a hostile world.
It is speculative to predict what the world will be like in 20 years. But what we KNOW today is that we have to kill subhuman Islamics, and we have to kill them systematically and in large numbers, to make the world safe again.
It is time to get on with the job... |
