FOX gets Foxed.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by tedhealy

USA and GB were allies with one of the biggest mass murderers ever, Mr. Stalin. Plenty of picturs of FDR and Truman shaking hands and making nice with Stalin. What does this prove (leaving aside FDR's rosy view of Stalin)? Somehow the cold war was invalidated because there were pictures of earlier leaders with Stalin when they had a common enemy?

Bingo.

It was Churchill who coined the term "iron curtain" in 1946. During WWII, Churchill said of Stalin "A hard-boiled egg of a man - at once a callous, a crafty and an ill-formed man."

Originally Posted by Enigma

It proves that politicians are liars and that the double standards in world politics are astounding.

It proves nothing of a sort in cases where the alternative is likely worse, as above.