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Larry G wrote:
> 
> "Joseph Crowe" <jcrowe@io.com> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0212181518110.944-100000@fnord.io.com...
> > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Larry G wrote:
> >
> 
> > > Nice sentiments, Alan.  But you fail to address the consequences.
> > >
> > > 1.  The neutral-isolationist movement in America allowed Hitler time to
> > > start rounding up the Jews in Europe and ship them off to the death
> > > camps.
> >
> >   1. Rebuttal - had Wilson not gotten the U.S. involved in the first
> >      conflict (after outright lying about never sending our boys over
> >      there), then events leading to the rise of the Nazis may never have
> >      even occurred.  Even at that, do you believe that the U.S. government
> >      has a mandate, either constitutionally (no) or ethically (no) to
> >      correct all of the conflicts in the world?  If so, please explain
> >      how FDR and Stalin were such bossom buddies..after all, Stalin had
> >      many more people killed than did Hitler.
> 
> The Nazis came into power because England and France demanded that
> Germany pay full reparations for WWI, putting a tremendous economic onus
> on the people, and building a hell of a lot of resentment and anger at the
> British
> and French in the first place.  It is my understanding that Wilson helped
> broker
> the peace with Germany, but Britain and France over-ruled his plan as being
> too lenient and not sufficiently punitive.  FDR was much more astute than
> that
> moron Truman who followed him.  I get the impression that FDR appeased
> Stalin only to maintain the alliance long enough to beat the Third Reich.
> Truman
> was the clown who gave away eastern europe and half of Germany because he
> pulled a George W. Bush, looked someone in the eye and thought he was a
> sincere and honest statesman.
> 


Well you almost got it right... Truman has to be credited with the
emergence of the Marshall Plan which prevented the situation that
resulted after WW I...  Hardly makes him a moron, eh?


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Regards,

JT (Residing in Austin, Texas)

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