Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
All true. Winston had his faults but his comment: "You can always rely on the Americans to do the right thing -- after they have tried every conceivable alternative" is remarkably accurate. We too frequently do a lot of really dumb things in the process of sorting it out... Well, I for one agree. There have been aberrations but then, no matter where, there always are.
By the time Rooseveldt had exhausted all the possible wrong options Stalin had a big piece of the European pie. It appears that it was Roosevelt's bumbling that drove Winnie to drink.

Churchill said: ''There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!''