Bush/Cheney Plan For World War II

Click here for today's edition of Cheers and Jeers, by Bill in Portland Maine, at Daily Kos. He describes "the Meeting of the Titans" -- Roosevelt and Churchill, at the Arcadia Conference, in Washington, D.C., two weeks after Pearl Harbor, when the two leaders met to discuss strategy in the war on Germany and Japan. "They came up with the following nine-point plan:"

1. Declare war on Canada.
2. Send too few troops to the field of battle.
3. Let lawless private mercenaries do much of the heavy lifting.
4. Allow companies formerly run by the vice president to win no-bid contracts and rake in obscene profits while providing shitty services.
5. Ask for no sacrifice from the people and tell them to go shopping instead.
6. Don't give the troops the equipment they need to win battles and protect themselves.
7. Botch the reconstruction.
8. Cut taxes at the same time---twice!
9. Leave office in disgrace six years later having failed to finish the job, and leave it to your successor to clean up the mess.

He left out the plans to hire a bunch of right-wing zealots, inexperienced kids from the Heritage Foundation who could speak neither German nor Japanese, to run the reconstruction, while blackballing dedicated, knowledgeable people from the State Department; to disband the German and Japanese military, guaranteeing armed insurgency; to round up large numbers of innocent civilians, along with the bad actors, and torture them, squandering all the worldwide goodwill generated by Pearl Harbor -- et cetera. There's a long list.

I wonder how Trump would have handled it?