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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message ...
He was not arguing feasibility--he was pointing out that yahoos like you would indeed have been labeling FDR a "warmonger" and condemning him for prosecuting a preemptive war had he been able and willing to act in the manner he described. Considering FDR's party affiliations, I would suspect that most of the people who would have condemned him for prosecuting a pre-emptive war would have been Congressional Republicans. That is, yahoos like... well, you, I suspect. Needless to say, seventy years afterwards, both you and the intellectual heirs of these people would still continue to criticize the decision to intervene in a "European conflict where the United States had no direct interest" and cry at the decision to attack "instead of pursuing a diplomatic resolution". No doubt there would also be suggestions that Roosevelt's decision to attack was counterproductive and only led to the escalation of Jewish persecutions in Germany - which was, mutatis mutandis, an argument which the opposing party in your country also advanced during the Kosovo crisis. So, in this alternate timeline, the ones who would have been most likely to label FDR a "warmonger" would have actually been people like you. (And deep down you know you would, even if you would not admit it.) By the way, remove the cross-posting from SHWI, please? Some of these posts may have had little allohistorical content, but not enough to justify the others on this thread which do not have any. Cheers, Jalonen |
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