If Only...

I count on Former Harvard President Larry Summers for a lot of material.  This I cribbed from the blog of Harvard Econ Professor Greg Mankiw.  President Summers:

Never forget, never forget, and I think it’s very important for Democrats especially to remember this, that if Hitler had not come along, Franklin Roosevelt would have left office in 1941 with an unemployment rate in excess of 15 percent and an economic recovery strategy that had basically failed.

It is an interesting thought, but then if there had not been Herr Hitler, would Il Duce have loomed larger in our lives and perhaps have sparked a European War that would have led to the outcome we had?

Alternative history can be fun, but if played truthfully, can begin to go in many weird directions all at once.

Regards  —  Cliff