![]() ![]() Advanced technology - from radar and supercharged aircraft engines to proximity-fused shells and atomic bombs - had been essential to the Allies’ victory in World War II, and there was no reason to believe that pattern would change. ![]() There were reasons, of course there are always reasons. Scores of foreign rulers have benefitted from cynical blessings similar to the one that Roosevelt supposedly gave to Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza: “He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch.”Īnnie Jacobsen’s Operation Paperclip recounts one chapter in that story: How, in the closing months of World War II and the years immediately after, the United States government rounded up hundreds of Nazi scientists and engineers from the ruins of the Third Reich, and gave them new lives in America. ![]() Franklin Roosevelt made common cause with Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower propped up Ngo Dinh Diem, and Ronald Reagan armed Saddam Hussein’s Iraq for war against Iran in the ’80s. The United States government has a long history of collaborating with evil men for what seemed, at the time, to be good reasons. ![]()
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