by smallpoxgirl » Tue 25 Jul 2006, 23:31:35
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('azreal60', 'T')wo things on that.
One, if that where true, we probably wouldn't have gone into Iraq.
Two, if that is true, then we would do the right thing anyway, and weither or not we want to do the wrong thing is immaterial.
There are two American realities: The myth of the kind benevolent, egalitarian, freedom lover. The reality of the brutal militant self-serving elitist.
Take Iraq for example.
US says. We're worried about weapons of mass destruction. Also we're sad for all the poor people being oppressed by Sadam Hussein.
Reality. US has more WMD that whole rest of the world combined. US is only nation to ever use nuclear bomb on another nation. US invades Iraq, kills the f--k out of some "hajis", gets nice strategic military base and secured oil supply. Reality for average "haji", if he's still alive, country now all f'd up. Violence way worse than under Sadam. Response by US president? "Mission Accomplished"
Domestically the situation is the same. US is nominally a democratic country. Reality of US elections is little better than elections in USSR. Vote for which exploitative A--hole you think has a better hair cut? Tweedle Dee(R) or Tweedle Dum(D)?
Why the US fought Germany is historically incongruous. Makes no sense to me. Every other war the US has ever fought, it has been on the side of oppresion. Why fight Germany? US business elites loved Hitler. Eugenics was an American science. Hitler, like Isreal, was a US prodigy. Why kill him?
Only reason I can figure is that Hitler was so blatent, so obvious, that to do otherwise would have exposed the duplicity inherent in the American Dream. American politics is all about plausible deniability. There was no denying Hitler.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'Q')uite the reverse, the US public was against another war. Pearl Harbour changed public opinion.
So why do you think the US fought Germany? (not meant sarcastically. It's a genuine dillema to me.)