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Originally posted by Not Bob
Allende in Chile? Chavez in Venezuala? Putin in Russia? Mossadeq in Irag? The guy whose name escapes me in Guatamala or Hondurus in the 1950s?
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Was Allende a communist? I thought he was a socialist. He may have been a communist but he definitely did not run as a communist. Same with Chavez. I don't think Chavez ran as a communist. I know Putin did not run as a communist and he is not a communist. Wasn't Massadeq in Iran? And I don't think he ran as a communist either.
I know who you are referring to in central america in the 1950s but again I think that guy ran as a socialist.
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Originally posted by Not Bob Oh, and we didn't actually have the bomb after Nagasaki -- IIRC, that blast exhausted our stockpile. Given what we know about Klaus Fuchs, et al, Stalin may have known that, too. It would have meant permanent garrisons in Western Europe, and that act alone may well have resulted in a mutiny along the lines of what the French faced in 1917. (Don't think US troops would ever do that? Ever heard of the post-war "we wanna go home" riots on US military bases?)
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Actually I think we had a few left, and we were definitely in massive production. May have take a few months. Didn't we leave Garrisons in Western Europe.
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Originally posted by Not Bob Plus, I don't think that the American people would have tolerated it. For better or for worse, the Soviets were portrayed (even in the then-Republican media outlets like Time and Life) as our gallant friends and allies. It would be a little too 1984-ish to assume that our allies could instantly be converted into our enemies.
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I agree with you on this. Sidd just asked me if we should have. I don't think it would have been politically reasible for the reaons you mention, but it would still have been the right move.
