There's lot of blame to spread around starting with FDR, the Communists and Pinkoes who surrounded him and his adoring fans in the media. We're still paying the price for this perfidy 75 years later.
1. Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Left switched from pacifists to warmongers overnight once the Nazi attack upon the Communists dissolved the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Communist Party USA chief Earl Browder, who had dubbed WWII “the second imperialist war” during the pact, so thoroughly switched course when the Nazis attacked the Communists that he embraced conscription (after his opposition to it led to jail in WWI), endorsed a ‘no-strike’ pledge for labor unions (after encouraging strikes to impede the war effort), and kicked out Japanese Americans from the CP (after ostensibly championing civil rights). The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League ceased operations during the pact. The Communists’ New Masses panned the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine when it appeared as a play during the pact only to praise it when it appeared as a movie when Hitler and Stalin were again enemies.
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Hey, erp, more than a little OT, but I thought you would enjoy this.
Thank God for the Aussies.
The thing our critics just can't seem to internalize is ,we really, really don't care what the rest of the world thinks of us, so it's unlikely we'll stop helping others less fortunate than ourselves when and however we can.
Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read this: Egypt's Al Akhbar newspaper said the US was helping tsunami victims to "consolidate its hegemony" and had nothing to do with humanitarian and moral principles.
The notion that we aid helpless dirt poor victims of natural disasters to increase our hegemony sounds like a skit on Monte Python.
Even more OT. When my mother visited an almost completely isolated and desperately poor Albania in the '70s, she met a very old man with his donkey walking along the road. When he heard she was from the big American city of New York, he was amazed and asked if it was as big as Korça as big a city as he could imagine.
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