"clifto" wrote in message
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Check your history. The country was full of anti-war leftists; that's what
kept us out for the first two years.

The history I learned says it was the Roosevelt administration which most
wanted us in the war. The Republicans were against it, as was a large part
of the US population, particularly in rural areas.

The American Firsters are kinda sorta still around in the John Birch
Society.

That's also why it took nearly a year
to get armaments produced; they kept the military budgets down back then,
too.

Liberals kept military budgets down? Maybe. The depression certainly did.
Roosevelt would have spent more, but even he had problems with his own tax
and spend party. The borrow and spend party did not yet exist in it's
current form.


They even had people flee the country to avoid the draft.

Let's not forget that the country was still in a funk over the First World
War, after which the "anti-foriegn entanglement" stance of Washington and
Jefferson made perfect sense to many people. And conspiracy theories aren't
a new product of twentyfirst century SW radio. There was then no shortage
of people who thought the blood spilled in the First World War was only to
benefit arms manufacturers and bankers.

Difference
was that the press back then was pro-America and didn't make heroes out
of such scum.


Would that press also include such prominent isolationists as Col. Robert
McCormack of the Chicago Tribune?

Frank Dresser