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Entry: "The Good War" in Context Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_good_war_in_context#20625 Post contents: Thanks for an excellent response to Spencer's silly and irrational arguments on behalf of the "good" war... I'm especially glad you noted that Hitler declared war on the USA, making the whole issue of intervening in the war a sort of mute point. On the other hand, you miss completely the fact the FDR really did everything he could to provoke Japan and Hitler into declaring war on the USA. FDR didn't really LIE us to war like Bush2 has done, but he did everything he could to provoke the war, and therefore do an endrun around the America First non-interventionists. The whole argument about US participation in WWII is sort of silly anyway, as most historians generally agree that WWII was caused by the injustices and unresolved issues of WWI. In that sense though, you are to be commended for recognizing that FDR pretty much believed in Wilson's ideas that were part of the causes of WWII. FDR's legacy is how he manuvered around the anti-war sentiments in the US to incite a war with Germany and Japan. I'm of Eastern European background, and most of us understand the horrors done to our people by Soveit Communism, and the fact that the USA's abandoned Eastern Europe to Stalin, and steadfastly the US foreign policy was to ignore the evidence of mass murder and repression in Eastern Europe, and supported Russia's Russia's calim ot own Eastern Europe. Sent at: 2008 10 11