10/10/2004 08:20:41 PM|||Toni|||The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing" - Albert Einstein

Too many people have forgotten their history and we know for sure that history taught in todays public schools have a revisionist theme to them like leaving out the true reason for the American Civil War (and it wasn't because of slavery) or what the use of the atomic bomb did for the world and especially the US in WWII against Japan (for one thing it saved approximately 1 million of US troops from death). People in Europe stood by and watched Jews carted off to death camps and turned a blind eye. People in the USA did the same thing and our major newspapers at the time didn't want to expose the dirty little secret of Hitler. It was just easier to pretend it didn't exist. The historical perspective in a short concise read will hopefully bring it all back.

Excerpt
World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before America joined it. It officially ended in 1945 - a 17 year war - and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own again . . . a 27 year war. World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP - adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars, WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.

Another segment of the article:
The Liberals are supposed to be in favor of human rights, civil rights, liberty, freedom, and all that. But not for Iraqis, I guess. In America, but nowhere else. 300,000 Iraqi bodies in mass graves in Iraq, not our problem. The US population is about twelve times that of Iraq, so let's multiply 300,000 by twelve. What would you think if there were 3,600,000 American bodies in mass graves in America because of George Bush? Would you want another country to help liberate America?

If you read this article - THE DEATH OF LIBERALISM by Raymond S. Kraft you will have gained a bit of historical perspective to the threat we are facing today.





|||109745764177907516|||Perspective is Everything