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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The person who said that was Roosevelt. And he took on the Nazis. Any irony for you?[/quote]

No irony.  Roosevelt said that in 1933, about the Depression, not the Nazis.  He said "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance"

What you are engaged in is unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes.

Lastly, Roosevelt didn't preemptively bomb Germany because they took the Rhineland in 1936.  He didn't attack when they took the Sudetenland in 1938.  In 1939, when they invaded Poland, the US declared neutrality.  Roosevelt didn't declare war when Germany took France, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia.  When London was being bombed, and Greece and Yugoslavia fell, he signed the Lend Lease Act, still not going to war.  No, it was only in December of 1941, when we were actually attacked, that Roosevelt declared war.

And you think that Syria is a threat to our existence.

Roosevelt had courage.  He did not throw us carelessly into war.  He tried to avoid it and he bought us five years to deal with our own economic problems back home.[/quote]

Many, many flaws in this analysis, but the overall point is correct.[/quote]

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