03-03-2016, 01:49 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:I understand the Roosevelt/Pearl Harbor business. What Harry is saying, I think, is that Roosevelt (or the people that wanted Great Britain out of the way) might have waited even longer, had not Roosevelt's hand been forced by Pearl Harbor.
If Roosevelt had been "ordered" to stay out of the war for longer, he might have carefully kept advance knowledge of the Japanese fleet out of the reach of whatever (civilian) group was holding his leash. It would be interesting to see if the (hypothetical) "leash-holders" were some special interest bunch as opposed to the general public.
Did FDR take orders? Not that he ran the show 100% at all times but was he such a puppet. Clearly 'they' didn't like him if they asked Smedley Butler to led the military in the coup against FDR but FDR called them on it. Though on the other hand he never prosecuted any one for it either. And he never stuck with Wallace either. I'm just trying to establish just how subservient FDR was.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.