yanamaster said:
Actually it's not that you didn't make it in time. you just chose not to. and that's a proven historical fact that most people don't talk about out of political correctness. We were basically handed over to Stalin. Oh and one thing, stay in the Us. We really don't need your personal phobias here. |
I know, and it was a horrible thing to hand eastern Europe over to the communists. It was a foolish, foolish, move on FDRs part that set the world up for 40 years of cold war. In fact, we wouldn't have most of the word's problems today if we didn't stop the tanks until we rolled into Moscow.
Which reminds me of a joke I sometimes use in meetings when one side seems too unwilling to compromise.
Listen Stalin, this isn't Yalta. You can't have everything you want.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
