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Yeah the shining light on the hill, giving hundreds of billions in foreign aid, and saving the world from tyranny three times is a terrible influence. Find me another country that when they are viciously attacked and must there fore destroy the attackers, but who is benevolent enough to rebuild the coutries that attacked us after they are defeated.
Yeah we sinisterly made Japan attack pearl harbor and Germany attack every one. We sinisterly saved the world from both of them (one of them twice) and helped people from every nationality along the way. While Japan was enslaving the pacific and raping China we were building hospitals in the pacific and sending aid to China. While Hitler was killing Jews as fast as he could we were sending supplies to the remaining democracies. We rebuilt both Germany and Japan and created a western Berlin so sinister that eastern Berliners would risk their lives to get there. Then we sinisterly lost many husbands and wives to save the world from Stalin's spreading tyranny that killed 15 million of his own people. We are so sinister as to have the greatest health care system in the world, until the socialist wrecks it like europe did. We are so sinister that millions have risked life and limb to get here. We sinisterly removed a tryrant from Iraq that had killed hundreds of thousand of his own people. I was in the military that did this and your diabolical comments are about as completely opposite from the real reason we (soldiers) fought as possible. Then rebuilt it and troops sinisterly ask for toys and goods from home to give the children. We also sinistery gave them the rights to their own oil that you probably think we went there to get. We sinisterly give more in aid than anyone and are usualy the first to help even former enemies. The world could use a lot more sinster acts like these.
I guess that is why minorities have braved every danger by the millions to get here. Nice sermon. Come off it.
I do not have time for this much unjustified negativity. I am an amateur historian and I specialised in 19th and 20th century military history. You may pick your poison and we can see what the case was. I do not know if it is possible to make statements more opposite from the truth than those you made. I have read transcripts of conversations between FDR and Churchill that demosnstrate in no unclear language our condemnation of England's colonial past. I guess our returning south Korea, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Vietnam, countless islands, Mexico, Iraq, Kuwait, Afganistan, etc....actually helping most including the Phillopines with money and protection to gain their independance from us and maintain it are examples of your rhetorical venom's accuracy. We could have kept every single one if we had any notion at all that lined up with your diatribe.
As we discard those terrible traditions like morality, God in schools or anywhere, and intestinal fortitude we see a much better world of school shootings, exploding teen pregnancy, rampent rates of children born out of wedlock, hyperbolic drug use, having a once stellar reputation around the world become a burning our flags party, and our once premere and unrivalled technical standing erode. Yes, let's get rid of those pesky traditions we are doing just fine. Good night nurse.
I thought you were not talking to me any more. If you can take the heat we can discuss this war if you want.
What of all the democratically elected rulers America has overthrown, the dictators America has helped put into power, the corporations American politicians gave the thumbs up to devastate third world countries, maintaning a military presence where there has not been any fighting for over half a century (such as Japan and Germany), invading countries where American interests have absolutely no business or right, or international policy that pretty much gives the middle finger to everyone except Israel and those who support American wars. And you can always ask a Native American just how friendly and awesome the government is.
Actually American forces really weren't needed by the time they did get involved with the European front. As for the Pacific, that too you cannot just look at American history books or you will be missing many details and facts. I'm sure all the American-born Asians would share your sentiments as they were being hauled off to concentration camps. And we never had any actual fighting against Stalin; on the contrary for many years, as George Orwell discovered, criticizing Russians was strongly frowned upon because there were apart of the Allied Powers.
Often they come to escape very terrible situations. Today we have Mexican immigrants fleeing a land plagued with violence (as was the case with many Middle Easterners during the early and mid 1990's), the Irish were escaping famine, even many of the early European settlers were escaping persecution. And the dangers they face varies, but I wouldn't quite say it's ever danger by the millions, and not to mention the oppressive discrimination many immigrant groups face when they get here in some cases can be worse than trials of getting here.
The majority of problems we are currently having are because we did not keep the place. We gave the Muslim's in Afghanistan arms and training that enabled them to defeat Russia. They took them and turned them on us for some stupid reason. Are you just going to find some reason right or wrong that allows you to maintain your comfort zone that for some reason assigns the most benevolent (but not perfect) nation in human history with all the world's guilt. No matter how contrary, clear, and accurate a point is that refutes your emotion based stance you simply concock a different explenation that allows you to believe what you want. I usually find that people who do this for some reason believe that Aliens built the Pyramids and the Vanderbuilt's control the world and all other manner of conspiracy. Is that true with you?
It was founded by Christian's on Christian values but with the resistance to any government dictating a religion. They were predominantly Christians from England that had a Government that controlled religion. They wanted to keep the religion but reject the control. Without God there is no justification or foundation that makes Lobotomy and eugenics actually wrong. Christianity is the only suffecient foundation for the morality, accountability, and meaning. Even Neitche knew that to kill God was to kill the foundation of everything we hold dear. Without God we are left with moral nihilism. I never made a statement that suggested any kind of governement control or enforcement of religion.
The server was busy so it deleted my response for some reason. You are getting the stripped down version. There were 32 plus countries fighting with us in Iraq. Not a single one was Israel. Apparently not as many fingers are given as you would prefer. I don't imagine that a country exists that has not gotten aid from us at some point. If Obama will send the Muslim brotherhood 2 bilion a year then no body must be turned down.
I have read enough books on 20th century to sink a battle ship. Both England and Russia would have been defeated without our direct involvement. Russia won because of four things. Stalin shoved people at Germany faster than Germany could reload. They had a superb tank (t-34) which was built on our 5 wheel chassis. They had later on, good aircraft which were based on our designs. We sent them equipment in inconcievable numbers (I have seen the official logistics logs). England won because they were very resilient people. They had great pilots and good aircraft. Radar that we helped build. Ships we gave them. We bore the brunt of the ground combat. We supplied them with the majority of supplies well before we declared war. They had Churchhill. That was WW2. It can very easily be argued that Germany was never militarily beaten in WW1, they were politically beaten when we joined in and they thought it was unwinable. The soldiers felt like they would have one and this was the sentiment that Hitler seized on soon after.
Saying that immigrants were running from something bad instead of running to something good makes no difference. If you read the civil war, you would have known that many men in Irish regiments died fighting in fields in Fredricksburg Virginia that were used to grow the potatoes that were sent to them in the famine. That was the reason they came here and were willing to die in those very fields. Running from something bad makes sence. To risk death to defend a country you do not love does not. Many immigrants that were so thankfull for the opportunity they found here that they willingly fought and died for a country they barely knew. We are well known as the city on the hill even with our faults and even though we are currently under a man that is destroying that. There is no intellectual gymnastics that will ever be able to stain the fact that we are the most benevolent major nation to ever exist in human history.
If we didn't we would not be here. There is a famous saying that goes something like this: If the Muslim's put down their arms there would be peace tomorrow. If the Israelis put down their arms there would be no Israel tomorrow. There is a world of wisdom in those statements.
