Well I think we in violent agreement about the uncouth dimwitted Trump. I’m convinced he’ll start WW3 and it is for that reason the Christian extremists support him.
I have a much more jaundiced view than you. WWII is the exception rather than the rule when considering Western culture. Certainly the fight was with two peculiarly sociopathic societies - Germany and Japan. But much else about Anglo-American history is nothing to be proud of. Palestine is a mess of British making. The American attack on Iraq was dubiously begun and the end in Afghanistan was ignominious. I heard a YouTube video today in which a British would-be MP claimed that Afghanistan was impoverished 200 years ago when its nut bearing trees were cut down. That’s something to be ashamed of.
I know. I said in the opening this was a gauzy view. And WWII was the exception. All war is terrible. And I am not proud of most of the ways the U.S. pushed itself to the powerhouse that it is by lowering a lot of others. But here we are. And selfishly, probably still like a child keep looking for us to do better.
Well I think we in violent agreement about the uncouth dimwitted Trump. I’m convinced he’ll start WW3 and it is for that reason the Christian extremists support him.
Oh, we definitely agree about that.
I have a much more jaundiced view than you. WWII is the exception rather than the rule when considering Western culture. Certainly the fight was with two peculiarly sociopathic societies - Germany and Japan. But much else about Anglo-American history is nothing to be proud of. Palestine is a mess of British making. The American attack on Iraq was dubiously begun and the end in Afghanistan was ignominious. I heard a YouTube video today in which a British would-be MP claimed that Afghanistan was impoverished 200 years ago when its nut bearing trees were cut down. That’s something to be ashamed of.
I know. I said in the opening this was a gauzy view. And WWII was the exception. All war is terrible. And I am not proud of most of the ways the U.S. pushed itself to the powerhouse that it is by lowering a lot of others. But here we are. And selfishly, probably still like a child keep looking for us to do better.