Fwd: Truth is the First Casualty of War

[Brad De Long]

>
>Author Michael Zezima makes the case that the U.S did not enter WWII to
>stop fascism or to make the world a safer place.  To the contrary, the U.S.
>business class traded with Hitler and Mussolini up to and even during the
>war.  Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh's public Hitlerphilia were symbolic
>of big business's admiration for Hitler's anti-communism.

This is completely incoherent. "The U.S." does not equal "The U.S. 
business class"--especially not in 1940, when the U.S. business class 
loathed FDR...