My misgivings of the WSJ's editorial positions aside, I do have a love/hate relationship with the Journal but love their book reviews; mainly because of length. Two books they reviewed, I am going to read. Goebbels, a f..king crazy who along with his crazy wife, poisoned their six children in a show of fanaticism for Hitler. In a sense, fanatics like ISIS are not any worse that nuts like the Goebbels.
The second book is "Potsdam," the Conference of Allied World Leaders, at the close of WW ll in Europe; at least from Truman's perspective, if I could guess, he was searching out the peace.
In a sense, a little tidbit that I hadn't thought about: Roosevelt suffered from heart failure. He knew it and did not expect to live through his fourth term. Consequently, he chose the little known Truman as his VP for his ending. (Much speculation, why?)
Potsdam, the summit, established Truman as very much seeking peace while all those around him clamored for more war.
Truman's management style seems much like our current President. On the "Myers Briggs Type Indicator." Both, I think, are ENTJs. For instance, all around the Prez, are the Republicans wanting more involvement in the MidEast when it has already proven we can't do s..t. The Iraqis couldn't get their act together when we were over there in full force and now facing ISIS, they definitely can't.
I get so f..king tired of the "talking heads," 'The President isn't engaged enough" Bullshit! The President gives someone a job, he expects them to do it. We don't want him farting around with a do nothing Congress. We want him trying to run the country.
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