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History tends to be viewed from only the personal localised perspective.
As has already been mentioned, Russia suffered by far the greatest in WW2, yet we see only the "relatively" small losses by the UK and the US.
America itself, while it stayed neutral, made money as its companies continued to manufacture on behalf of Hitler, notably Ford Motor Company.
The general reference to the French being cowardly insults the valour of the Free French.
( their losses already described )
The Polish Air Force squadrons fought alongside the British in its time of need, and were repaid when their own country was liberated by the british.
Canadians, sensing the urgency of the unfolding horror in Europe travelled and volunteered to fight out of personal conscience.
Most of the US economic achievements were because of the plundering of the german scientific elite.
( would America have reached the moon without the Nazi-V2 rocket scientist Werner von Braun ? )
Even if we give due credit to the US for liberating Europe from discrimination and tyrrany, why did it take another twenty years before america gave their own black population equal rights.
( in germany, if you were a jew, you wore a yellow star as a badge to identify you as different and a lesser human being. in america, you wore your badge in the colour of your skin. )
I am sure america is a good country, but the majority are being fooled into following a short-sighted and narrow-viewpointed administration.
( The majority US tax-payers are shouldering the burden of the "war on terror", but the minority well-connected businessmen are gettign lucrative contracts to sell Iraqi oil for their own profit, "rebuild Iraq" for their own profit. The "spoils of war" go to the few, while the majority pay for it. )
Historians like to say how many american lives were saved by the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The saving of so many adult men by the obliteration of so may innocent women and children.
What if someone told you the "war on terror" could be solved as quickly. That so many highly trained soldiers, men who have chosen to devote their lives to the art of human butchery, could be saved by the nuclear bombing of any two cities, resulting in the obliteration of homes, schools, hospitals.
Which two cities would you choose to bomb ?
Today is a time, more now than anytime on the last few years, to see beyond the simplistic, tabloid stereotypes, and realise that the solution comes from genuinely believing in equality, human rights, and civil liberties, based on basic values, not on whether you can get multi-billion dollar military contracts, and turning a blind-eye to suppression.
As has already been mentioned, Russia suffered by far the greatest in WW2, yet we see only the "relatively" small losses by the UK and the US.
America itself, while it stayed neutral, made money as its companies continued to manufacture on behalf of Hitler, notably Ford Motor Company.
The general reference to the French being cowardly insults the valour of the Free French.
( their losses already described )
The Polish Air Force squadrons fought alongside the British in its time of need, and were repaid when their own country was liberated by the british.
Canadians, sensing the urgency of the unfolding horror in Europe travelled and volunteered to fight out of personal conscience.
Most of the US economic achievements were because of the plundering of the german scientific elite.
( would America have reached the moon without the Nazi-V2 rocket scientist Werner von Braun ? )
Even if we give due credit to the US for liberating Europe from discrimination and tyrrany, why did it take another twenty years before america gave their own black population equal rights.
( in germany, if you were a jew, you wore a yellow star as a badge to identify you as different and a lesser human being. in america, you wore your badge in the colour of your skin. )
I am sure america is a good country, but the majority are being fooled into following a short-sighted and narrow-viewpointed administration.
( The majority US tax-payers are shouldering the burden of the "war on terror", but the minority well-connected businessmen are gettign lucrative contracts to sell Iraqi oil for their own profit, "rebuild Iraq" for their own profit. The "spoils of war" go to the few, while the majority pay for it. )
Historians like to say how many american lives were saved by the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The saving of so many adult men by the obliteration of so may innocent women and children.
What if someone told you the "war on terror" could be solved as quickly. That so many highly trained soldiers, men who have chosen to devote their lives to the art of human butchery, could be saved by the nuclear bombing of any two cities, resulting in the obliteration of homes, schools, hospitals.
Which two cities would you choose to bomb ?
Today is a time, more now than anytime on the last few years, to see beyond the simplistic, tabloid stereotypes, and realise that the solution comes from genuinely believing in equality, human rights, and civil liberties, based on basic values, not on whether you can get multi-billion dollar military contracts, and turning a blind-eye to suppression.
