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"James" |
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15 May 2004 01:57:54 PM |
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If today's media had been around during WWII |
If today's media had been around during WWII, would we have won?
Would Eisenhower have been fired?
Would we have invaded Normandy?
Would we have dropped the bomb?
Would we even have gone to war?
Food for thought.
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| Title: Re: If today's media had been around during WWII |
15 May 2004 05:58:03 PM |
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"James" <jrapier@dcr.net> wrote in message
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If today's media had been around during WWII, would we have won?
Would Eisenhower have been fired?
Would we have invaded Normandy?
Would we have dropped the bomb?
Would we even have gone to war?
Food for thought.
Yes, indeed. However, the only comparisons to the WWII era that I have
found compelling are those between the rhetoric, strategies, propaganda,
deceit and [il]legal and political tactics of the Bush administration to
that of the Nazis.
To see what I'm talking about, read this account from a man who lived in
Germany through the rise of Hitler's Fascist regime. The similarities to
recent US history are chilling:
http://truthout.org/docs_04/010904A.shtml
When it comes to military conflicts which the US has initiated or escalated,
the best comparison to the Iraq war is the Viet Nam war.
As for "what might have happened," it's a apples and oranges. There is
virtually zero chance of an Iraqi invasion of US soil on any scale that
threatens the nation significantly. The WTC attacks were not - I repeat -
were not carried out by Iraqis!! So far, Iraq has not attacked the US even
once. Therefore, seeing Iraq as a military threat is completely insane.
Anybody who supports the Iraq war on the grounds that Iraq is hostile and
threatens the US is also insane.
By contrast, both Japanese and German military units reached both the east
and west coasts of the contintental US during WWII. If the US had not become
involved in the European war, then the war would have come to the US after
Europe had been sacked. But Hitler wouldn't have attacked the US right
away. He would have waited until his empire was rebuilt, and then would have
overrun the US quickly and decisively. Remember that the US had time to
mobilize a huge, dedicated, brainwashed/propagandized workforce to build the
necessary mechanization to fight the war. If Germany had attacked first, on
US soil, the outcome would likely have been very different.
R
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| Title: Re: If today's media had been around during WWII |
15 May 2004 07:34:37 PM |
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Counter-Invasion
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V-E Day, May 8th, 1945
This is the Day the Greatest Generation "Saved the World!"
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Yes, they were "The Greatest Generation".
They saved the world with their Counter-Invasion.
It is morally correct to invade a country which is already occupied by invaders.
The purpose of the Counter-Invasion is to drive the invaders out.
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Today May 8, is V-E Day. On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered. According
to Tom Brokaw and others, when Germany fell to us and our Heroic Ally, Joseph
Stalin, the world was saved. They tell us that the generation that saved
Comrade Stalin was The Greatest Generation.
I loved my uncles who served in World War II, but what we are discussing here is
not those people as individuals. We are talking about what that whole
generation did.
So if my disagreement with this Greatest Generation nonsense makes you say "I am
insulting your granddaddy or your Papa", please leave the room and let the
grownups talk.
I don't like the World War II generation, as a generation, for exactly the same
reason Tom Brokaw loves them dearly.
When the World War Generation came of age around 1940, the white male walked the
world like a Colossus. When they ceased to be the dominant group, whites were
groveling and begging the world for forgiveness.
By the time the World War II generation ceased to be the dominant group around
1980, anyone who was not fully committed to the end of the white race was a
racist. Immigration and integration and miscegenation became the Final
Solution to "the race problem." But this "race problem" existed ONLY in white
countries and this "race problem" existed in ALL white countries.
No one says that "the race problem" will be solved by miscegenation in Asia or
Africa. No one asks to massive third world immigration into Japan or Taiwan or
the unpopulated areas of Africa or Brazil.
Only Brokaw's Greatest Generation would ever allowed such an idea to be
accepted. As a liberal, Brokaw loves them dearly.
I don't.
READ THE CURRENT ARTICLES:
http://whitakeronline.org/current.htm
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