Re: Russia, ISS, and the New Cold War

On Oct 1, 11:07 pm, Willie.Moo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I only meant to say that concern with US and British attack
created the agreement in the first place.

Other than the U.S. ceasing to be a democratic country with humane
values, or ceasing to be a country with significant industrial output
or military strength, there is really nothing it could have done to
avoid creating that concern. It wasn't any warmongering policies by
FDR that can be blamed.

In any event, the only possible argument about the general course of
U.S. policy in World War II is not "should they have pursued a course
less hostile to Japan and Germany, and thus have avoided Pearl Harbor
and their own direct involvement"; it is instead "should they not have
attacked Germany much earlier, thus reducing the terrible bloodshed,
and perhaps even *preventing the Holocaust*".

Intervening before 1941, and obtaining Russia's unconditional
surrender into the bargain, and thus preventing the long and terrible
agony of Eastern Europe, would be a bonus. But there, there is still
some possibility for controversy, since people sympathetic to
Communism still aren't as overwhelmingly rejected and denounced as
Nazis are, even these days, when we can clearly see how evil Communism
was, because the nations of Eastern Europe are now free, and can speak
unambiguously.

John Savard
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