How was FDR's exit strategy in WWII any different from Bush's?

Question

Did FDR give a solid date by which we would be out of Germany? I hope not we are still there. President Bush gave an exit strategy. . .We train the Iraqi military, Police, and Civil Service, We help them set up their own government with elections and then when the new government is ready we leave. This will be a slow but steady process. It was the same with FDR. We defete Hitler, help the German people rebuild and protect them against Hitler loyalists until they can protec them selves.

Answer 1

Since FDR was dead, it wasn't so much an issue for him. However Harry Truman was working on the end game plan. The Hitler loyalist were either hiding, en-route to, or in South America. Towards the end of the war, the German soldiers were running to the Americans because they didn't want to be caught by the Russians. That was an entirely different war than this one. Not all military rebuild countries. The Japanese were rather pleasantly surprised we didn't want to occupy and slaughter them. We shook hands and worked with them to rebuild their country. That is why they are such a good friend to the US to this day.

Answer 2

Actually, FDR didn't care about rebuilding Germany. Germany was an excellent tactical position from which to watch Russia, who's sudden dive into militaristic communism was becoming seriously concerning to democracy worldwide. FDR was still rebuilding America after the depression. Bush's exit strategy is flawed, in that it involves holding a country that has run roughly the same way for 1000 years at gunpoint until they accept that our definitions of freedom, liberty, justice, women's rights, government, morality, and religion are better than theirs. Slow is one way to describe it, but I would say unreasonable to expect.

Answer 3

um... last time I checked we still had troops in Germany???! So there doesn't appear to have been an exit strategy, 60 years later... No doubt that outcome in Iraq would be satisfactory to a lot of people for geostrategic reasons. The difference is that Bush has declared a worldwide war on terror is against 'a different kind of enemy' so the war keeps going for as long as those in control of information want it to because the public will have no idea if and when the war is ever won.

Answer 4

I really think you all have missed something here first off, It was Churchill and FDR along with Stalin that beat Hitler. Harry Truman did the clean up and he said that it would be a crime to make a profit off of millions of war victims. Haliburton, Carlyle, and Rumsfelds Bechtel are making a fortune with their pipelines to Israel....Right now! So trying to connect FDR or Truman is a ridiculous thought to George Bush.

Answer 5

Yo, Ethan, Bush is building 12 military airbases in Iraq, that doesn't sound like we going anywhere. How about Camp Anaconda, Iraq. A U.S. built air base is the 2nd busiest airport in the world, the base is 15 miles long and 15 miles wide it contains thousands of apartments, has a shopping mall containing restaurants, retail shops nightclubs and bars. they have golf courses, bowling alleys and swimming pools!It's located about 20 S.W. of Bagdad. They aren't building these for the Iraqui's they're building them for us. It's called Iraq, U.S.A.

Answer 6

Are you kidding me ? WWII was nothing like Bush's war . He picked this invasion in Iraq . We had to go to war to save the world from Japan and Germany 's invasion and they surrendered . There was no time limit .
There was no doubt that all our lives were at risk as was our country .

Answer 7

in WW11 the Germans were not fighting and killing each other,, they marched through Belgium into France killing and rounding up PW's until FDR and US troops pushed the Nazi's back through Belgium, and back into Germany, defeating them,, set more than 20,000 pw's free,,,, then the rebuilding,,,, and Hitler and his girlfriend were so humiliated, they killed themselves.... George W. Bush is NO FDR

Answer 8

FDR had an exit strategy.

Bush has NO strategy, didnt have one to start, doesnt have on yet. Its a fact.

Answer 9

FDR didn't have to deal with troops being shoot at during the "occupation phase", nor civil war.

Answer 10

by the point FDR has died by using ailment the warfare in Europe became already received (Hitler killed himself 2 weeks after FDR died) and the warfare in the Pacific became in simple terms organic desperation by the jap (it became round this time that Japan all started kamikaze runs) in case you examine heritage books instead of blogs by Glenn Beck you ought to recognize that. God, teabaggers are stupid