There is an old saying, "Man plans, and God laughs."
Those of us who have studied history recognize the truth of the adage, but in this post the sad, dark, humor of the saying will become evident.
1. General Patton wanted the defeated German Army to be put in the service of the Allies, to confront the growing and intended world domination by Stalin's Bolsheviks.
Patton saw the inevitability of a conflict with the Russians.
"It is a conflict that Patton believes will be fought soon. The Russians are moving to forcibly spread communism throughout the world, and Patton knows it. "They are a scurvy race and simply savages," he writes of the Russians in his journal. "We could beat the hell out of them."
"Patton," By Martin Blumenson, Kevin M. Hymel, p. 84
Can you imagine the chagrin in the Soviet-occupied Roosevelt administration???
2. America was not ready to continue the war, and Roosevelt certainly wouldn't allow any confrontation against his BFF, 'Uncle Joe' Stalin. This is where we bring in the subject of this post.....the birthday boy:
George F. Kennan, in full George Frost Kennan, (born February 16, 1904, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.—died March 17, 2005, Princeton, New Jersey), American diplomat and historian best known for his successful advocacy of a “containment policy” to oppose Soviet expansionism following World War II.
Britannica.com
3. His plan was to surround and suppress the hungry bear, the Soviet Union. "Kennan then advocated U.S. counterpressure wherever the Soviets threatened to expand and predicted that such counterpressure would lead either to Soviet willingness to cooperate with the United States or perhaps eventually to an internal collapse of the Soviet government. This view subsequently became the core of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. " Ibid.
4. He knew that Stalin, far smarter than FDR, controlled American foreign policy, and the best America could hope for-as long as Roosevelt was in charge, was to hold the blood-thirsty savages back.
Kennan knew what a second-rate leader Roosevelt was:
"George Kennan’s view of Roosevelt’s performance during the war is considerably harsher than Harriman’s. After commenting bitterly on the “inexcusable body of ignorance about the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States,” Kennan turns more directly to FDR alone:
'I also have in mind FDRs evident conviction that Stalin, while perhaps a somewhat difficult customer, was only, after all, a person like any other person; that the reason we hadn’t been able to get along with him in the past was that we had never really had anyone with the proper personality and theproper qualities of sympathy and imagination to deal with him, that he had been snubbed all along by the arrogant conservatives of the Western capitals; and that if only he could be exposed to the persuasive charms of someone like FDR himself, ideological preconceptions would melt and Russia’s cooperation with the West could be easily arranged.
For these assumptions there were no grounds whatsover; and they were of a puerility that was unworthy of a statesman of FDRs stature."
http://www.mmisi.org/ma/30_02/nisbet.pdf
For Democrats reading along, puerile means childish, foolish......stupid. FDR.
5. Sadly, containment of Russia didn't work, due to Roosevelt's efforts. He made certain that Russia survived the war, and that communism had a comfy home in America. It is the reason that neo-Marxism prevails today.
So, who and what has been 'contained'? This:
individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
“free markets, free voices, free people”
Instead, neo-Fascism has won the day.
It is America and American values that have been contained.
Those of us who have studied history recognize the truth of the adage, but in this post the sad, dark, humor of the saying will become evident.
1. General Patton wanted the defeated German Army to be put in the service of the Allies, to confront the growing and intended world domination by Stalin's Bolsheviks.
Patton saw the inevitability of a conflict with the Russians.
"It is a conflict that Patton believes will be fought soon. The Russians are moving to forcibly spread communism throughout the world, and Patton knows it. "They are a scurvy race and simply savages," he writes of the Russians in his journal. "We could beat the hell out of them."
"Patton," By Martin Blumenson, Kevin M. Hymel, p. 84
Can you imagine the chagrin in the Soviet-occupied Roosevelt administration???
2. America was not ready to continue the war, and Roosevelt certainly wouldn't allow any confrontation against his BFF, 'Uncle Joe' Stalin. This is where we bring in the subject of this post.....the birthday boy:
George F. Kennan, in full George Frost Kennan, (born February 16, 1904, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.—died March 17, 2005, Princeton, New Jersey), American diplomat and historian best known for his successful advocacy of a “containment policy” to oppose Soviet expansionism following World War II.
Britannica.com
3. His plan was to surround and suppress the hungry bear, the Soviet Union. "Kennan then advocated U.S. counterpressure wherever the Soviets threatened to expand and predicted that such counterpressure would lead either to Soviet willingness to cooperate with the United States or perhaps eventually to an internal collapse of the Soviet government. This view subsequently became the core of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. " Ibid.
4. He knew that Stalin, far smarter than FDR, controlled American foreign policy, and the best America could hope for-as long as Roosevelt was in charge, was to hold the blood-thirsty savages back.
Kennan knew what a second-rate leader Roosevelt was:
"George Kennan’s view of Roosevelt’s performance during the war is considerably harsher than Harriman’s. After commenting bitterly on the “inexcusable body of ignorance about the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States,” Kennan turns more directly to FDR alone:
'I also have in mind FDRs evident conviction that Stalin, while perhaps a somewhat difficult customer, was only, after all, a person like any other person; that the reason we hadn’t been able to get along with him in the past was that we had never really had anyone with the proper personality and theproper qualities of sympathy and imagination to deal with him, that he had been snubbed all along by the arrogant conservatives of the Western capitals; and that if only he could be exposed to the persuasive charms of someone like FDR himself, ideological preconceptions would melt and Russia’s cooperation with the West could be easily arranged.
For these assumptions there were no grounds whatsover; and they were of a puerility that was unworthy of a statesman of FDRs stature."
http://www.mmisi.org/ma/30_02/nisbet.pdf
For Democrats reading along, puerile means childish, foolish......stupid. FDR.
5. Sadly, containment of Russia didn't work, due to Roosevelt's efforts. He made certain that Russia survived the war, and that communism had a comfy home in America. It is the reason that neo-Marxism prevails today.
So, who and what has been 'contained'? This:
individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
“free markets, free voices, free people”
Instead, neo-Fascism has won the day.
It is America and American values that have been contained.
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