July 10, 2003

WWII Bad Guy

In a perfectly sensible article on the economy William Anderson had to go off on a tangent about World War II:

One hopes that the Bush Administration does not seek to emulate FDR, although, like Roosevelt, this administration has forced through huge increases in government expenditures and with the recent Medicare bill, has dumped a gargantuan unfunded liability upon U.S. taxpayers. (At least FDR did not send the armed forces all over the world – at least during the 1930s. In the 1940s he helped launch the biggest and most destructive war in world history.) [emphasis mine]

Note that Anderson fails to mention that Germany started the war with its invasion of Poland, and Japan brought in the U.S. with its attack on Pearl Harbor. In his world, the U.S. was the bad guy. Uncle Sam was the reason millions died and entire nations were shattered. Tell a few million free Europeans and Japanese how horrible the U.S. was in WWII.

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