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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Aug 1 11:27:24 2012, in response to Re: Hey, Chris R16 , Got any Polls?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Aug 1 11:10:26 2012. Really?FDR and HST not only led the United States through WWII, they made it possible, through Lend-Lease, for our other major allies--the UK, France, and the USSR, to hold off defeat by Germany. WWII in 1940-41 was a much nearer thing than any of the victors ever admit, to this day. Only the leadership of these two Presidents kept the world from being plunged into the eternal night of slavery and genocide under the jackboots of the Axis. JFK's cool, unflinching handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, with some skilled backchannel diplomacy, unquestionably saved the world from a nuclear war that very likely would have rendered humanity a minor, or extinct, species on this planet. His refusal to let the situation escalate, even as both sides began actually shooting at each other late in the crisis, is the reason almost everyone (who is still alive) born after October 1962, is alive today. I shudder to think what would have happened had Nixon been President in 1962, instead of JFK, given what we now know about his gross inability to handle the power of the office. As for President Obama, you can best believe Osama Bin Laden was plotting and planning against us right up until the moment the SEALs burst into his bedroom. He and Al-Qaeda represented the greatest threat to the life and safety of the average person anywhere on the planet, that has EVER been posed by a terrorist group at any time in history. Besides the 9/11, London, and Madrid attacks, there is ample evidence to suggest OBL and company were looking for any way they could to buy, build, or steal weapons of mass destruction, including "dirty nukes". Imagine for a moment that the attempted car bombing in Times Square was a dirty, or, worse, a "baby" nuke. Bin Laden hoped for this, and we are immeasurably safer in the world without him. |
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