If President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been a member of today’s Democrat party, how would World War II have turned out? Would we now be speaking Japanese or German, instead of English? America lost 415,000 citizens fighting alongside the Allies whose total losses reached 43,000,000 (43 million) souls. What would today’s Dems have said about those horrendous figures, especially considering the fact that the Allied losses amounted to five times those of the Axis? What about the fiascoes committed by the Allied campaign in Europe which squandered military resources including soldiers’ lives, such as Operation Market Garden (aka “A Bridge Too Far”)? Would the party of the president have demanded that he “bring the troops home“? Without doubt, today’s Democrats would have declared the war to be a disaster and the American Commander-in-Chief to be incompetent. (Numbers from Wikipedia)

During the American Civil War it took Abraham Lincoln two years before he was able to find General Grant to run the military. During those long two years, not even counting Rebel losses, the Union Army suffered 2,896 casualties at Bull Run, 13,353 at Fredericksburg and 18,440 at Chancellorsville. How would today’s Democrat party describe the failures of Commander-in-Chief Lincoln to prevent such devastating loss of life?

There has never been a victorious army that ran a campaign devoid of poor decisions and heart-breaking failures. War is an unpredictible “trail and error” business. What is necessary to win is to have vision and the determination to continue the fight even when setbacks and political difficulties arise.