Your top 10 Presidents.

[Rob Wick]

Mike,

There is a great deal of truth to what you write, although I hasten to add that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is far older than Roosevelt. The intricacies and nuances of the relationship between FDR and Stalin is far too great for me to comment on intelligently in a brief forum post, but given the situation at the time I'm not really sure what else could have been done. There is no question that Stalin was as much a monster as Hitler, but Stalin was willing to fight against Hitler, who at the time was a far greater threat to western civilization, in my opinion. My selection of FDR came about more for his realization that Hitler would have to be confronted long before other Americans reached the same conclusion.

Best
Rob