More on Yalta

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili criticizes the negotiations at Yalta in an otherwise nice op-ed on democracy. The rhetoric must be thrilling to the neo-cons, and I'm sure they'll all be linking to it today, but that's to be expected with Bush in Georgia. I obviously have no problem with pro-democracy rhetoric (in fact, I encourage it). However, as I argued previously, we promote democracy because it is the right thing to do, not because some neo-con revisionist history makes conservatives want to grant reparations to countries we didn't liberate previously.

Also, op-ed in the LA Times defending our actions at Yalta. The author also notes that a certain Republican general backed up FDR's decision:

Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower was happy to let the Soviets bear the brunt of the fighting as they marched toward Berlin, and he was unwilling to expend American troops on storming the German capital.

UPDATE: Ok, just two more links. David Greenberg gives a history lesson on Yalta over at Slate. And even Joseph Britt over at BD says the Yalta remark was probably not the right thing for Bush to say.

Actually, it's been pretty fun this past week to read all the historical debate on the blogs over WWII. Maybe Bush can comment on the Monroe Doctrine next time he heads South so we can do it again.