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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (135494)	4/4/2001 5:28:38 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Kevin, FDR was too ill in the last years of the war to do anything toward victory, and ended up giving the USSR half of Europe at Yalta. The decisive blow was ordered by Harry Truman, one of the few Democrat Presidents I ever admired. The fighting men did not get their leadership from FDR. They got is from their military leaders. America was hardly isolationist in the 20th century. Have you forgotten world war I? Did you not know that thousands, maybe millions, of tons of war material was being shipped across the Atlantic to our allies in Europe, primarily England, with great loss of life to merchant marine sailors? You should read about history somewhere other than Classic Comics.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (135494)	4/4/2001 5:50:46 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Never heard of George Marshall, did you? Too many union teachers...

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (135494)	4/4/2001 5:52:40 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I believe the country was ill prepared for WWII. Why? Isolationism; the tendency to think that the US is an island, and that the conflicts of the rest of the world are none of our business. Sound familiar? Back then, the isolationists were mostly Socialists; now, they seem to be on the other side of the spectrum. Clearly being prepared today is acknowledging an engagement with the whole world. We are in effect the "policeman" of the world, like it or not. We are the last resort for conflicts that conflagrate or spiral out of control. You can call this isolationist but it wouldn't be true, no matter how many times you say it. We will not do a perfect job but no one else is even stepping up to the plate, so what to do? I don't consider the larger problem to be a desire to mind our own business (isolationism) but a tendency to underestimate the realities of a world with little democracy and even less freedom. Edit: perhaps we should not refer to each other as liberal or conservative.....how about mugwumps?