Everyone knows FDR's achievements, but why doesn't anyone know how he achieved such?

Question

Noblesse oblige, indeed! FDR, by a process of self-corruption, blinded himself to the realities of Stalin's Great Terror. He ignored written, documented warnings from State Department Soviet experts such as Loy W. Henderson, a longtime career diplomat and one of the principal architects of 20th-century U.S. diplomacy. He preferred the lying reportage of Walter Duranty, the New York Times correspondent in Moscow, and the scandalous pro-Soviet reports from his ambassador in Moscow, Joseph E. Davies. This is the Davies, a wealthy corporation lawyer, who in 1946 actually preached treason, to wit: "Russia in self-defense has every moral right to seek atomic-bomb secrets through military espionage if excluded from such information by her former fighting allies."

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200505/ai_n13639570

Whatever happened to the liberal ideology that "the ends, do not justify the means

PS. I thought FDR was a great war president

Answer 1

It is 2007 babe!

Answer 2

FDR allied us with Stalin because we had a common enemy that was a greater threat to us than Communism was at the time: Fascist Germany. Remember, the enemy of our enemy is our friend. In fact, the Soviets hated Germany more than anyone else did! Vice President Harry Truman said, regarding the breaking of the Nazi-Soviet Pact:

"If we find that Russia is wining, then we ought to help Germany and if Germany if winning, we should help Russia. That way, they can kill as many of each other as possible."

Our alliance with the Soviets was reluctant, but because of it, Europe isn't all speaking German.

Answer 3

His blindness to Stalin was a major fault. Churchill tried to warn FDR what an evil bastard Stalin was but I think the strain of the war blinded FDR to anything except ending the war - he couldn't see past the surrender while for Stalin it was just the beginning of the expansion of the USSR.

Answer 4

we were still involved in the Pacific though if I remember correctly... he would have been a fool to start another war in Russia at the time...

you only have so many troops... and you spread them too thin, you lose everything...

do you think he could have done something about Russia? realistically? while fighting Japan?

what exactly would you have done? what were his options? I'm afraid the war would have been lost if any other actions were taken...

Answer 5

FDR wasn't blind to the realities of stalin he just chose to ignore them, You forgot to add that FDR engineered our entrance into WWII, by selectivly enforcing cetain acts against the Japanese wich forced the Japs down the path of bombing Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

Holy crap. We got enough problems today. Lets leave the past in the past. Liberals will want to dig FDR up and impeach him next!

Answer 7

Don't forget he was sick and close to dying when he agreed to everything that you've said...................
They had a common enemy and that is Germany and Japan.