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In reply to the discussion: Remember how FDR executed American Nazi sympathizers? [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)There are plenty of ways to attack the asinine drone memo and policy. Holding up FDR as some kind of perfect exemplar of executive restraint, however, is not a very good one. The OP has a rather odd fetish for FDR that is easily debunked. That's not a defense of the asinine drone policy, but an eye-rolling response to the OP's ridiculous implicit assertion that FDR is a model of civil liberties in wartime. indeed, as FDR's absolutely outrageous refusal to deal with lynching legislation for fear of offending his southern Dem flank makes clear, he wasn't even really that great on civil liberties in peacetime. None of this is particularly complicated: the OP made a stupid, ahistorical, and easily countered argument, and it was easily countered.