I think wars are necessary to keep military-industrial complexes in business. They might be stopped if the politicians and generals involved were charged, tried, found guilty of war crimes, and jailed for decades.
Re. "Ike served in World War II as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe before becoming President. He helped encourage an industrial mobilization that enabled the U.S. to liberate Europe and defend democracy from the global threat of fascism..."
Huh? other nations helped defeat the nazis e.g. Britain and its Commonwealth i.e. New Zealanders, Australians, Canadians. The French, the Poles. This extract runs like a Hollywood movie. The writer might care to note the 1944 Normandy invasion probably would have failed/been postponed if the Russians had not broken the back of the German army - at the cost of too many Russian lives. The myth that America saved Europe and democracy deludes Americans. Some of you are too inward looking.
US is a punitive society unworthy of the Founding Fathers.
I think wars are necessary to keep military-industrial complexes in business. They might be stopped if the politicians and generals involved were charged, tried, found guilty of war crimes, and jailed for decades.
Right now or in the near future, I will not be visiting the US, particularly through LAX. Too unpleasant an experience.
Re. "Ike served in World War II as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe before becoming President. He helped encourage an industrial mobilization that enabled the U.S. to liberate Europe and defend democracy from the global threat of fascism..."
Huh? other nations helped defeat the nazis e.g. Britain and its Commonwealth i.e. New Zealanders, Australians, Canadians. The French, the Poles. This extract runs like a Hollywood movie. The writer might care to note the 1944 Normandy invasion probably would have failed/been postponed if the Russians had not broken the back of the German army - at the cost of too many Russian lives. The myth that America saved Europe and democracy deludes Americans. Some of you are too inward looking.
I never cease to be amazed at american right wing religious fundamentalists. It would be terrible for the world if one ever became president.