Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Honeytraps
Interesting short feature on BBC about Churchill's campaign to bring America into the war.
Churchill honeytrapped Murrow and Harriman, using his daughters and daughters-in-law as bait. Murrow and Harriman succumbed, becoming British patriots and American traitors. Both remained traitors for the rest of their lives, doing immense harm to American interests.
FDR stoutly and CORRECTLY resisted Murrow and Harriman's propaganda, remembering what happened in WW1 and representing the will of the American people. The italicized words are meaningless now, but apparently had some meaning in 1940. FDR did use the war as an opportunity to boost American industry, with considerable success. He didn't ENTER the war until we were actually attacked. Again I'm puzzled by the concept, but apparently Americans at that time had strange delusions about just war and national interest.
Fortunately we have been cured of those delusions. We're all Murrow now.
Not Polistra. She remembers.
Note the change of wardrobe. Since 2007 Polistra has been wearing a 1930's shirt, indirectly representing the spirit of FDR without specific national reference. Now it's abundantly clear that the nearest approach to FDR's ideas is in Russia.
¶ 3:52 AM 
Note the change of wardrobe. Since 2007 Polistra has been wearing a 1930's shirt, indirectly representing the spirit of FDR without specific national reference. Now it's abundantly clear that the nearest approach to FDR's ideas is in Russia.
¶ 3:52 AM
