[lbo-talk] De Long Way

[Brad DeLong]

>There's an important sense (and it would be more trouble than it's worth
>to explain what that sense is) in which both the US and the USSR didn't
>choose to fight WWII and hence don't deserve credit for its consequences.
>
>-- Luke

Yes. It is a truth too often forgotten that only three leaders chose 
to put and keep their countries in harm's way: everybody else ran for 
cover until Hitler attacked them.

Great praise and honor are due to Edouard Daladier, Winston 
Churchill, and Neville Chamberlain.

I'd give FDR a partial share too: he worked like a dog to get the 
U.S. into World War II in spite of skeptical public opinion and a 
recalcitrant congress.

Brad DeLong