I do know this. Harry Truman did not consult any world body before he dropped a couple big ones on Japan. He did not apologize later, either, not even for the fallout.

Harry Truman did make consultations concerning Korea. However, he did accept responsibility for sending a lot of good Americans to their ultimate end. Many froze to death. Many suffered horrifically in prison camps. many faced the nightmare of one on one battle hugely outnumbered.

From what I read, Truman did what he thought necessary to solve the problem, even if it was very, very costly.

Truman made his decisions because he was a man of principal who would do what he had to do to fulfill the responsiblities of his office.

He had experienced, and was able to bring to an end the horrors of the world war. He consulted with international bodies in some cases, but Truman consulted on behalf of the welfare of one entity, the United States of America. His goal was preserving and protecting the US.

I do not see evidence his goals were integrating the US into the world government, and weaning its people from their desire for independence and control over their own nation and destiny.

Comparing Truman to Bush, there are similarities in their accepting the cost, and burden of extreme sacrifice to protect the nation. I have divorced Bush because of his betrayal on immigration. However, I respect his handling of the war, and agree with the reasons for exporting liberty, and fighting the enemy on his soil, not ours.

I do believe Bush has diverted the resources of the terror web with the Iraq war, to our betterment, and I believe history will show him to be right one day.

It is too bad that because of the leftist liberal machine, that any modern president, especially a Republican president, who took the risks, and created the death counts of Truman today, would not be bestowed the respect that Truman got and deserved.

oh, forgot, Truman was a Democrat.

Pajamas Week in Review podcast. Glenn and Helen interview Peter Beinart, who I ran into briefly at the Fox News D.C. green room. Got a free copy of his new book, which I’ll peruse over the weekend. My Hot Air……

“Progressive” unfortunately is a curse word these days. It sounds so positive that the cranially-impaired will “feel” (because they won’t have the brainpower to actually THINK) that it’s a good thing. But it’s not. Today “progressive” is code word for socialistic/communistic steaming piles of horse dung. Think, for example, of the “progressive” income tax that is a bloody nightmare to administer and frankly is just plain idiotic. Or the “progressive” welfare system that REGRESSES society as a whole by imprisoning those who most need to be given a kick in the pants so they will get off their duffs and become functioning parts of society. And on and on and on…

RH

Being the biggest kid on the playground increases the visibility and impact of the decisions that we make as a country. It raises the bar on everything we do, holding us to a higher standard than all the smaller kids (who have already forgotten who it was that vanquished the biggest bully on the playground). That said, they ought to think twice before they decide to tweak our collective nose.

Sorry Peter, but regardless of what you say about Republicans and national security, for Democrats/liberals to get in line with them at this point would represent a quantum leap of improvement. That leap won’t be taken by tearing down Republicans on the issue.

Or to put it more succinctly, Dems need to clean up their own backyard first.