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Entry: The Good War Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_good_war#20508 Post contents: Hitler's ideology was weaker, Italy , Hungary, Romania, etc did not become puppet states until they became on the verge of falling (such as after 1943 when Benito had to be rescued by Hauptsturmfuehrer Skorzeny, after which the Italian Social Republic was a puppet state). Hitler was in poor health and probably would not have lived to see 1950. Sure, there were rabid Nazis to take his place but I really doubt it would have lasted long. Just as the deaths of authoritarian conservatives Franco and Salizar in Spain and Portugal effective meant the death of their authoritarian states not long after. Marshall Goering? There is evidence he himself was not even an anti-semite, so Germany may have resembled a South American junta if he had come to power. Not that is good, but I am convinced actions such as terror bombing of German cities were NOT 'good'. (for the record - my grandfather was involved in such actions - he was a B17 pilot who did runs over Germany) This is all hard for some to swallow perhaps. The regimes in Moscow and Berlin were evil to say the least, but they are gone now. But I do worry about this site a little bit. Suddenly William F Buckley was a great conservative (and not just a vicious war monger), and 'purging' the John Birch Society was a noble deed, and here we have a 'good' war discussion, where wonderful FDR is praised for bringing into a war not in our best interest. Arguably, world war II sealed our fate, and meant endless growing government which will perhaps never stop growing until the empire falls. Sent at: 2008 11 23