"Taxis to Hell and Back...Into the Jaws of Death". The shining moment, and for all the right reasons. Co. E, 16th RCT, 1st. INF. DIV. arrives at Omaha Beach. 6 June, 1944. Photo by Robert F. Sargent, USCG.  

WWII started in 1931, when Japan invaded Manchuria

Mr. Carafano,

"There is nothing wrong with negotiating. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, met at Tehran in 1943 irony there and forged a plan for winning World War II. Despite their many differences, they shared a common goal." 

And two years later, they met to divvy up the world. Your attempts to obfuscate history on behalf of  the ideological agenda you serve is specious at best. The fact remains: The US and Great Britain climbed in bed with Josef Stalin, perhaps the most brutal dictator the modern world has known. And we knew full well with whom we would be sleeping. Despite the unsavory nature of the Iranian regime, we do know one thing. We know the ayatollahs and mullahs have not starved 27 million people to death.  Using the "common goal" nugget as a mechanism of equivocation lacks historical substance and reduces the complexity of both situations to a rather binary state. However the common goal in this instance might just be a stable Iraq.