On 4 May 2006 22:40:19 -0700, "Gus" wrote:
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I don't believe that in WWII the media, Hollywood actors, and many
university professors opposed the administration and the war and
actually "wanted" us to fail, like it seems they do today.
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They did up until the time that "Mother Russia" was attacked.
Communist party line abruptly changed from isolationism to "were
all in this together," and "lets get that lend-lease material to
Russia, no matter how many US ships are sunk and US sailors
killed on the Murmansk run."

Not all bad to have an opposition though -- it helps avoid "group
think" and situations like the "Bay of Pigs."




Unka George
(George McDuffee)

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy
which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;
even a democrat like myself must admit this.

But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy,
for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the "money touch,"
but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Letter, 15 Nov. 1913.