Misguided Policies Quotes
Dodd, in Berlin from 1933 to the onset of WWII, was able to see first hand what Hitler and the Nazi Movement was really like, Although he for the United States and Churchill for England warned early on, the politics of the times would not allow any action to stop or curtail Hitler. America, in particular, had a strong isolationist Republican wing and in addition, a small but loud core of pro Fascist, Hitler admirers such as Charles Lindberg, Father Coughlin, and Henry Ford. America had virtually no serious military capacity at the time, and with the Depression, FDR had all he could do to just gradually build up the military. By the time the Democracies realized that Dodd and Churchill were right, it was too late to prevent WWII. Dodd died in 1940 just when it was clear that he had been right.
We have government by the clueless, over a place they’ve never been, using means they don’t possess.
Describing government attempts to regulate the Internet and other electronic communications:
Pershing, normally a very circumspect officer did not criticize politicians very often. But the Congress has just cut the military appropriations with several the more vocal members appealing to voters on the grounds of economy. At that time our military was woefully unprepared and did not have anything like the kind of support that it obtained from the beginning of world war two and onward.
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