Looks like Matthew Yglesias is picking up where he left off yesterday in his discussion of the history of national security threats. Take a look:
As Fred Kaplan notes, if Churchill and FDR had operated with the Bush mentality, "they might not have formed an alliance with the Soviet Union (out of a refusal to negotiate with evil Communists), and they might have therefore lost the war."
It's worse than that, though -- they might have proposed attacking the Soviet Union in the middle of the war because Bolshevism and Nazism were both species of Eurofascism.
Head on over to Slate to take in Kaplan's piece in full. It's not a line by line refutation of Rumsfeld's recent speech, but its close.
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