"...Norquist, a younger Baby Boomer, has actually hit the nail on the head. The twenty million men we drafted to win the Second World War (a conflict he apparently regrets) deserved, and got, their countrymen’s reward, in the form of the GI bill, 4% mortgages, generous Social Security benefits, and real pensions...." DK
I differ markedly from Norquist re regret. My regret is different. I deeply regret leaving Stalin in control of Europe. We all like to say Eastern Europe, but if he wanted, it was all of it, at least for a while.
Putin has only this past week, on the 75th Anniversary, rubbed this basic truth in the noses of the West. Putin is right. DK is wrong.
The comments came after his government claimed D-Day was "not a game-changer".
Russia often accuses the West of failing to properly acknowledge the Soviet Union's role in World War Two.
"The Normandy landings did not have a decisive impact on the outcome of World War Two," said its spokesperson Maria Zakharova this week. "It was inevitable after the Red Army victories at Stalingrad and Kursk."
When DK says we won the Second World War, he is mistaken. Russia won it, and won Eastern Europe.
Even Stalin thought better of pushing the envelope in Western Europe, knowing what he knew by then of a likely final outcome.
But even that, at that time, was uncertain in my judgment.
Look, after all, at the fate of Patton and his army, who himself and his army were really the only usable guarantee of security for Western Europe from Russia at that moment. In the face of that Russian challenge, America stood down. Patton was killed.
I doubt whether the United States would have fought on to push the Soviets back from Western Europe. They also would have had terrible trouble even trying using nuclear weapons in Europe, given the obvious destructive consequences.
Think about it.
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