What If MoveOn.org Existed 65 Years Ago?

[fleaplus.livejournal.com]

WW2/Iraq comparisons of course have all manner of caveats attached, but I still thought this was rather amusing:

http://redstate.com/stories/war/what_if_moveon_org_existed_65_years_ago

Comments

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

ww2 became a good war in the lefties' rear view mirror thanks to fdr, but does anyone really believe today's left would have supported war with nazi germany?

[glenniebun.livejournal.com]

After Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war, there's a sink-or-swim impulse that comes in even for lunatics (except for the most loony of the loons, of course).

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

i can picture teddy kennedy arguing against war, endlessly pontificating how the nazis are europe's internal problem.

or at least until they blocked the sea lanes and cut off his supply of scotch.

[glenniebun.livejournal.com]

If you say so. I don't think he's that nuts.

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Actually, it would be Pat Buchanan and other America-Firsters on the far right wing who'd be making that argument. In the historical context, the lefties were strong supporters of the war, because the Fascists were staunchly anti-Communist. It was leftists like George Orwell who were traveling to spain of their own accord to fight against the Fascists there.

[j0kerr.livejournal.com]

Yesterdays left didn't support a war with Germany.