Thanks for all the guesses on the Pop Quiz. Mike got it even though he didn’t understand the quiz. Good thing I’m not a teacher because I’m not very good at ’splainin’ stuff. Gary got it after talking “out loud” to himself for a while and Selif was right on the money, without even hesitating! Maybe if I’d made it a contest with a prize, I would have gotten more responses, huh?
And now, the answer.
These are media quotes taken at the time when Franklin D. Roosevelt, yes, the beloved FDR, wanted to bring us into WW2. Critics felt he wanted us to go in to take attention away from (counter-attack, even) what was seen as a “do-nothing domestic policy.” And others felt that it was “just another New Deal” program.
I find it interesting because even now with all the anti-war sentiment, I’m still not sure if we were right or wrong to go into Iraq. In fact, I don’t believe we’ll be able to fully judge our actions for another 40 or 50 years. I do believe that it is only in retrospect, with decades separating us from this war, that we will be able to judge rationally what was right and what was wrong about the decisions that were made.
If this little glimpse back in time is any indication, that belief is correct. I suppose time will tell.