Tributo ao "McCarthy"smo

"It is also worth mentioning at this juncture that Senator Joseph McCarthy made lots of allegations in the 40’s and 50’s regarding Communists and Communist sympathizers in government and in Hollywood. He was discredited, disgraced, and drummed out of office. His health failed and he died. Subsequent in-depth investigations and research of archival documents, accelerated by the advent of the Internet, has since proven that he did not make a single unfounded accusation. The eight people in FDR’s immediate staff and cabinet whom McCarthy accused of being Communists were, in fact, Communists. They were simply more powerful than he was. Several well-documented books have been written about McCarthy’s accuracy and actually include certified copies of relevant documents, but tens of thousands of copies have been confiscated and destroyed. " Fred Marshall Jr. - September, 2002

PS: Ficamos a conhecer assim, um dos factores que contribuiu para o resultado da Segunda Guerra - a derrota da Europa e Asia livre. Roosevelt tratava Stalin com "Uncle Joe" (pelo que julgo saber, recebeu uma espada autêntica das Cruzadas de Churchill), e se na Europa a politica da derrota total favoreceu Estaline, na Asia (com Roosevelt e depois Truman - Presidentes Democratas) faz com que o desaparecimento do Japão como potência local, a Ásia se transforme (começando pela Coreia, colónia Japonesa) num quintal comunista. Isso e a queda do Império Britânico fazem o resultado brilhante daquilo que chamam de "boa guerra".