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To: sm1th who wrote (54953)	10/9/2013 8:50:42 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 85487

<<However, Roosevelt tried to arouse the American public with his ?Quarantine? speech in Chicago in 1937. He proposed to quarantine aggressors by joining other powers in such an effort. Isolationist (Republicans!!-my insert) feelings were still too strong among the American people and he was, therefore, unsuccessful.>> yale.edu History. Facts matter. So what do you say to that? " How did he facilitate WWII?? <<by appeasing Hitler for a decade and by stopping oil exports to Japan>>

To: sm1th who wrote (54953)	10/9/2013 9:05:52 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

I'm no fan of FDR, mostly for reasons of liberty and economic policy, but by saying he facilitated WWII by "by appeasing Hitler for a decade and by stopping oil exports to Japan", you seem to be saying that he should have not appeased Hitler but should have appeased Japan. The most relevant appeasement of Hitler was by the European powers at the time. They were never likely to start a preemptive war or even to have risked an earlier war by taking a hard line over Germany's actions, but at least there was some chance they would have done something. I don't think any one who could have gotten elected president of the US in the 30s would have tried to attack Germany (much less attack Germany without the support of the UK and France), and if he did congress would have made it more difficult. Would any other president have asked for a declaration of war on Germany when they remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936? Attack because of the Anschluss? Or do you mean later when the German war machine was more ready (Invasion of Czechoslovakia, Invasion of Poland)? That wouldn't have have just been getting the US in to the war earlier, and would have only been possibly useful if the European powers went along. The same is even more true about the invasion of France (and France fell too quickly for the US to have been any serious factor in stopping the conquest). Japan's oil imports (and steel as well) helped build and prepare their war machine, fuel the invasion of China and slaughter or Chinese, and then fuel the planes that dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor.