FDR and Obama

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion has a post today basically contrasting FDR’s prosecution of the fight against Japan and Germany in World War II with Obama’s approach to the Iran situation.

While I agree with the basic premise, I do not necessarily agree that “FDR was a friend of ours[.]”

FDR did plenty of damage himself with similar domestic policies, extending and deepening a recession into a depression. What’s more, by following the approach that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” he caused the Cold War that followed World War II.

We should have just let Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union go at each other until we’d gotten strong enough to enter the war ourselves. Instead, we gave no end of material support to the Soviet Union even while they held Doolittle raiders as virtual prisoners of war for fear of opening a second front with the Japanese.