While in my more youthful days I supported Norman Thomas in 1932 (I was only 13 at the time!), as you all know, I've more than come around on Roosevelt, and adamantly believe him to be the best President in the history of this country. What he has done in not only rebuilding our economy but reforming it to prevent a return to either the poverty of the Depression or the widespread inequality and dangerous financial speculation of the 1920s cannot be celebrated enough. Now that we are building a truly democratic and prosperous society, why are we going to throw it all away to once again embrace militarism and imperialism, spending millions in enriching the weapons and munitions companies, and dooming so many young Americans to death in Europe? Let's follow Stalin's path: make peace with the Germans (and let them get a little bit of, frankly, somewhat justified revenge for how they were treated after the last war) and focus on our own domestic prosperity.
Hear, hear! You make an excellent point, good sir. While I have almost no kind words to say regarding either the Russian or German governments' deplorable ideologies, With the peace between those two diametrically opposed nations being so secure (and it shall doubtlessly remain so for the foreseeable future!), the United States has absolutely no cause for alarm. Surely our nation need not lapse into pointless militarism solely due to a conflict thousands of miles across the ocean! I say we should mind our own business.
