"Analysis: The generation that won WWII made the world a better place. Better, but not perfect" by David Shribman Globe Correspondent, August 8, 2020
It was a 20th-century moment when Americans could say, as the great patriot Thomas Paine wrote at the dawn of the nation, ‘‘We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
He profanes Paine and then uses him to advance a chosen viewpoint.
Seventy-five years ago this week, America’s World War II opponents across Europe and the Pacific were defeated and reduced to rubble. The United States possessed the planet’s most powerful weapon and the globe’s most robust economy, its strongest currency, and the most attractive sense of national purpose. We were primed for the biggest consumer revolution ever, for the gaudiest, most pervasive and most dominant cultural explosion of any age, for the most sweeping effort in history to educate its people, and for the most selfless effort at rebuilding a battered continent ever contemplated. America stood unrivaled in military and moral power, and yet this week, three-quarters of a century after the end of the conflict that left the United States preeminent in the world and the savior of Europe, the dreams seem darker and the positive, elusive. American citizens are banned from entering the Continent because of the rampant spread of the coronavirus in their homeland, the American president is reviled by most of the country’s traditional allies, and the institutions that far-sighted American statesmen used to construct the architecture of the post-war era diplomatic and economic structures are either in tatters, in turmoil, or in trouble.
Forget being banned from the Continent, look around you and at the lockdowns, Americans.
The Founding Father's would have been already fighting.
For Americans, the long look back to the sense of infinite possibility of those days has become a sentimental journey — the title, as it happens, of the number one song of 1945. We talk loosely of the “Greatest Generation,” those who stepped into the breach to win the war and lived into the promise of the peace that followed, and many great things were in fact begun in those days.
He acts like we can all recall that time when the vast majority of us were not even alive.
Time to put the head down on the desk and sleep through this crap cla$$.
The first slender — slender and appallingly inadequate — stirrings of justice for Black Americans, eight decades after the war that ended slavery. The making of an economic boom that seemed built to last forever, and that might even throttle poverty at last, and the necessary diminution of the power of corrosive nationalism around the world — the malign force that fueled two catastrophic world wars — with the birth, among other historic innovations, of the United Nations, but retrospect makes it clearer by the day that this was work more begun than completed. Black lives still don’t matter enough. Economic inequality is graver than ever. Nationalism of the most worrisome sort is on the rise, here and elsewhere in the world, and so on, missions still to accomplish.
Still, it is a good time to reconsider those days and those dreams.
That postwar world, weary from 2,194 days of brutal conflict and mechanized death, looked to America — the postwar equivalent of what Churchill had called ‘‘the sunlit uplands” — for leadership, and for inspiration.
Instead, we gave them covert CIA destabilizations and coups and a Cold War that sucked up untold trillions.
“The United States was not only ready to assume this role but it was totally rational that it should do so,” said Jeremy K.B. Kinsman, who has served as Canada’s ambassador to Great Britain, Russia, Italy, and the European Community. “There was nothing bad about it, which is why the Trump phenomenon of ‘America First’ is so troubling to so many of America’s closest friends.”
In abandoning two centuries of isolation, the United States not only joined the international order but also reshaped it.
“Despite all the mistakes and tragedies since then, including two long wars in Asia, there have been some phenomenal successes,” said Adam Roberts, emeritus professor of international relations at Oxford. “In 1989 and 1990 the Soviet Empire, and then the Soviet Union itself, collapsed, and now in 2020 we can celebrate the fact that major inter-state war has been avoided for 75 years. The trouble is that this is no time for celebration. The US, like the UK, is floundering in a COVID-19 mess largely of its own making,” and so this is a bittersweet anniversary, the sweet coming from the celebratory reflections; the bitter coming from the promise that went unrealized, and the promises unfulfilled.
“I do believe the World War II generation was ideally suited to take on the historic challenge of a two-front war because so many members were hardened by the experience of the Depression,” said broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw, who took the “Greatest Generation” tag for the title of his bestselling book, in an interview for this essay, but he added that when people question the label he has a ready response: ‘‘I said ‘greatest.’ I did not say ‘perfect.’ ”
Nothing in this world is perfect -- save maybe for the slave $y$tem they are constructing around us as we hurtle toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Great Reset -- and anyone who expects perfection is going to be severely disappointed.
Btw, why is Schribman including Brokaw in this column?
Of course, nothing ever happened to him, even though we are supposed to believe the woman -- but only if the accused is a Republican; otherwise, lie back and enjoy the ride, ladies, for it is an honor to be raped by a Democrat. Think the Virginian Lt. Gov and Billy C if you can.
That great but imperfect generation was so powerful a presence in modern American life that for 14 consecutive elections in the 20th century, at least one of the major-party presidential nominees was involved in the war — 50 percent more elections than those contested by the 18th-century Founders.
“That group of politicians was marked by the war, as people involved in all-consuming events like war are,” said Angus King, who taught a course in leadership at Bates College and Bowdoin College before being elected to the Senate from Maine as an Independent. “We saw it in the Civil War... and today, when politicians who were in Iraq or Afghanistan have an aura, and certainly this is the case with the World War II presidents,” and would-be presidents.
By would-be they mean the Republicans’ 1996 presidential nominee, former senator Robert J. Dole of Kansas.
Just as important was what followed the war: the high hopes of the veterans, of those on the home front, of millions abroad, in displaced-persons camps, in the squalor of wrecked cities, in countries where the manufacturing base was destroyed and the agricultural prospects minimal.
On anniversaries like this, we salute how much was accomplished in those 75 years, and yet it would have been inconceivable to those imagining the postwar world, that life expectancy in the United States would be lower today than that of Poland, Germany, Italy, and Japan, countries left destroyed by ground combat and airborne assault. It would have been beyond comprehension that the cost of a college education, brought within the reach of millions because of the generosity of the GI Bill, would be beyond the grasp of millions in 2020. It would have beggared belief that American prosperity had not reached into the bottom quarter of the workforce. It would have astonished the 350,000 women who enlisted in the armed forces and the many hundreds of thousands who worked in wartime factories — 310,000 of them in the aircraft industry alone, 65 percent of the total aviation-manufacturing workforce — that 75 years later, women would still be fighting for equality in the workplace and were earning on average about 81 cents to the dollar that men were earning.
A lot of things that have happened during the last few months were inconceivable to most, but not all, people.
‘‘Very seldom do you get a crack in time when there is so much to be rebuilt,” said Stephanie Coontz, a historian at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. “We blew it after World War I but after World War II it looked as if we might do it, though we did not include Blacks and women. At times like this we don’t look back at the way things were, but at the way we hoped things were becoming.‘’
Moreover, in the peace that emerged after the war it would have been difficult to imagine that Americans of color, many of whom joined in the fight for freedom around the world, still do not enjoy the fullness of freedom and equality at home — or anything close to it — and that the ethnic and religious hatred that the soldiers, sailors, and aviators of World War II thought they were eradicating from the face of the earth would have remained a scourge on the earth.
“World War II uncovered — laid bare for us — that hate is capable of bringing on the greatest evil,” said Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where two years ago 11 Jews were murdered while he led them in Sabbath prayer. “It makes me pause and wonder 75 years later whether we have accomplished all that much. The good people on this earth have been engaged for millennia in this work, and the anniversary of the end of the worst period of hate in history reminds us that there is so much more work to be done.”
The irony of included a member of that hateful tribe preaching how much more work needs to be done. I guess 75 years of lies and distortions isn't good enough.
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Three-quarters of a century is, to be sure, a long time. It is the distance between Shay’s Rebellion in Western Massachusetts and the outbreak of the Civil War in Charleston, S.C., between the election of Benjamin Harrison and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, between Pearl Harbor and the inauguration of President Trump.
We need a Shay's Rebellion now.
The America of 1945 was without supermarkets, freezers, dishwashers, even ballpoint pens. Since then the shopping center sprouted, was converted to a mall, and then just about died. Popular music went from 78s to LPs to eight-tracks to CDs to iPods to streaming services. The births of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Trump, Dolly Parton and Cher were a year away, but an economic explosion was imminent, fueled by consumer demand that had been building during the Depression and war years. In the immediate postwar period, personal consumption expenditures created an average annual growth rate of per-capita GDP of 2.5 percent, according to a study that senior analyst Nick Bunker prepared in 2014 for the liberal-leaning Washington Center for Equitable Growth, but that galloping growth would not prove to be equitable growth — not nearly.
The gap between those high on the income ladder and those in the middle and lower rungs did not change substantially from the end of the war until the 1970s, when the gap began to widen. The share of income growth captured by the top 1 percent in Massachusetts between 1945 and 1973, for example, was 2.9 percent. That figure rose to 50.4% in the period from 1973 to 2007, then to 58.4 percent in the eight years that followed, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Today, in fact, the average income of the top 1 percent of Massachusetts residents is $1,904,805, while the average income of the other 99 percent is $61,694, a top-to-bottom ratio of about 30 to 1.
The result is a different United States from the one many dreamed of at war’s end. “In effect,” the anthropologist and author Jared Diamond has written, “the U.S. is a country of 328 million inhabitants that operates as if only 50 million of them matter.”
So that is how many of us they plan to get rid off with the COVID va¢¢ine.
All that, despite the massive exposure of Americans to education, regarded for generations as the sturdiest ladder of social and economic mobility.
He just undercut the $y$temic raci$m and $exi$m argument!
In years leading up to the war, the United States, in the characterization of the Harvard economist Claudia Goldin in a 1998 study, “pulled far ahead” of the rest of the world in high-school graduation, with a rate of 50.8 percent. There are conflicting figures for high-school graduation today, but there is a consensus that the figure has risen by more than half since then —and that the rate for Blacks and for Hispanics is lower than that of whites. An engine of opportunity has stalled.
The GI Bill opened the college gates to World War II veterans in what Ira Katznelson, the Columbia historian, called “the single most important piece of legislation ever passed in America to create a modern middle class.”
Does the Globe and its writers ever talk to someone who isn't a Joo or tool of theirs?
Today the typical college graduate earns about $80,000 while those with only a high school degree earn about $36,000, but in education, as in all areas of American society, the cruelest dividing line was race.
PFFFT!
Americans also roared out of World War II with enormous confidence in progress through science. Nuclear weapons technology could be used for peaceful energy. The DuPont Co. had spoken of “better living through chemistry” since 1935, but after 1945 it became a conviction rather than a slogan. Scientists began to understand DNA, to battle disease with new and more powerful tools, and to achieve remarkable feats of exploration through NASA.
NA$A is a fraud, and look at him bemoan how the mighty and revered nuclear $cienti$t mass-murders and environmental despoilers are no longer held in such unquestioned awe.
The decade after the war was the true high point for doctors and scientists; the pinnacle may have been Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine, with research financed by the March of Dimes and its more than 100 million Americans contributors.
“We came out of World War II with science in the ascendancy,” said Richard Scheines, a Carnegie Mellon University expert in the philosophy of science. “We thought we could feed the world. We thought there could be clean energy, It turns out that the world is more complicated than we thought. It turned out that we couldn’t figure everything out.“
So we basically decided to declare war on it and kill it in the pursuit of profit before this planned collapse at the hands of the globalists and ultimately and controlled Communi$t country.
Why did we even bother with the Cold War then?
So corporate oligarchs could get rich and become members of an AmeriKan politburo?
That was never so clear as it has been this year, when the coronavirus consumed more American lives than the Korean and Vietnam conflicts combined.
Of course, COVID hasn't claimed nearly as many Korean or Vietnamese lives as "we" did. Those numbers run into the uncounted millions, and the Koreans were literally flattened during that war.
Are you tired of the one-sided view being espoused in this article?
Look, the America I know is its good-hearted and kind people, not racists, not sexists. Plain-spoken and blunt, yeah, but it is not the AmeriKa that is our government, carrying out atrocities against our wishes and in our names.
“There was confidence science could solve all the problems the world faced — and that all infectious diseases could be taken care of,” said Jason Opal, a McGill University historian who is writing a history of epidemic diseases in the United States with his father, Steven Opal, a clinical professor of medicine at Brown. “Now we know better, and we have lost confidence in our ability to solve our problems. The decline in science is part of the decline in the morale of America.”
In a way, it isn't a decline.
The idea that Americans are skeptical of a $cientifically-ba$ed, technocratic dystopia that is being foisted upon us is uplifting.
That is not the only decline from World War II-era heights that America is experiencing today. Its decline in international prestige and global influence is one of the themes of the era.
“The US was the key player in establishing a liberal international order,” said Kiron Skinner, former director of policy planning in the State Department in the early Donald J. Trump years. “Today the international order is adrift and the ideas the US helped shepherd are being contested not only by other powers but also inside the US.”
Nowhere is that more apparent than at the United Nations, founded amid soaring rhetoric and hopes in the war-ending year of 1945.
“It was the silver lining of the Second World War,” said Stephen C. Schlesinger, author of a 2003 history of the San Francisco conference that created the UN. “These people had seen 30 million people die in the First World War and 60 million in the Second World War and wanted to make sure that a Third World War would never happen.... Today nobody is happy with it today except that it has lasted 75 years.”
I once believed in that con job known as the U.N. back in the Iraq invasion day (they failed to stop it and haven't tried the mass-murdering war criminals Bliar or Bush), although now I recognize it as the source of $upreme global evil due to COVID. It's as plain as day now, for that is the instrument the globalists are using to advance this evil, God-awful agenda.
Have they helped the Palestinians?
The Yemenis?
The Haitians?
The Africans?
Hey, BLM, better hit New York and the U.N. complex fast!
It's a RICH MAN'S CLUB, and why wouldn't it be?
It was the brainchild of David Rockefeller and was created by his tool, FDR.
When World War II ended, there was no doubt that the strongest economy was in the United States. It was the collective sense of the global markets that US government bonds were the most risk-free asset and that the dollar was the world’s reserve currency, notions codified in the fixed exchange rates that came out of the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944.
“If we lost the war, none of that would have been the case,” said Matthew J. Slaughter, the dean of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Administration and a member of George W. Bush’s council of economic advisors. “A lot has changed, but the US dollar is still the world’s most important currency.”
When that reserve currency status is dumped because of the dollar's worthlessness due to COVID aid giveaways, the American people -- if there are any left -- will understand what it was like in 1920s Germany and in contemporary Zimbabwe.
ENJOY!
“We had licked the Depression and won a just war, and the country was punch-drunk at VJ Day,” said David M. Kennedy, the prominent Stanford historian. “The world was wide open for those of that generation who survived. A lot of the aspirations of the moment were fulfilled, but we look a little less triumphant today. For sure we have some steps to go, and I wonder whether this journey ever ends,” and where it will take us. The generation that won the war and prospered in peace, made the world, in many ways, a better place. Better, but not perfect.
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Related:
2020 will mark us all, for the rest of our lives
Shribman was of the idea that this year, we 'have to decide what kind of people we are going to be’ a mere two months ago.
I don't know about him, but I know who I am!
Also see:
Bernard Bailyn dies at 97
Apparently, his research changed how scholars view the American Revolution, the son of Charles Manuel Bailyn and Esther (Schloss) Bailyn, who is best-known and most influential book draws on scores of political pamphlets published during the years prior to the Revolution that argue that conflict with England owed far more to political than economic or other causes.
Leave it to a Joo to distort the history (how about that, BLM?) of the American Revolution, and imply it wasn't the policies of the BoE that led to war.
At Medford’s Royall House, there is no missing the realities of Northern slavery
The article by Hayley Kaufman(sigh) of the Globe Staff tells you 60 enslaved people once toiled for a rich landowner in Medford and Kyera Singleton wants you to know who they were because in the midst of the pandemic, she landed a new job, becoming the executive director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, believed to be the last standing structure of its kind in the Northern United States.
Time to knock it down like so many statues, then.
Flipping above the fold we find current history:
Many of Massachusetts’s biggest companies do not have a single Black board member
They include prominent names such as Dunkin’ Brands, Hubspot, TJX Cos., and the sex-trafficking Wayfair which is still running television ads (sick).
The fact that the Globe has gone nowhere near it and doesn'tt put a Spotlight on Epstein, etc, prove that there function is to cover-up the sick predilections of our alleged superiors.
It's enough to put a frown on the face:
Eversource Energy CIO Kathy Kountze has been seeking a board seat for over a year (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff).
She can tell you why fighting climate change means engaging communities of color in the $cam.
That isn't to say we don't have problems with pollution, etc, (when was the last time the Globe reported on Fukushima, btw?), but they take a back$eat to the overarching agenda that serves the Great Re$et!
Related:
"The coronavirus may be changing the world, but there aren’t many signs of the pandemic at the massive annual motorcycle rally being held this week at a small city along Interstate 90 in western South Dakota. The scene Saturday at the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was familiar to veterans of the event, with throngs of maskless bikers packing the streets. The bars and nightclubs that line the city’s main drag this year were filled with revelers as the sun set Friday. The sheer numbers raise the prospect that this year’s rally could spread the COVID-19 virus in a state with no special limits on indoor crowds, no mask mandates, and a governor who is eager to welcome visitors and their money. Republican Governor Kristi Noem has taken a largely hands-off approach to the pandemic, avoiding a mask mandate and preaching personal responsibility. She supported holding the rally. Daily virus cases have been trending upward in South Dakota, but the seven-day average is still only around 84, with fewer than two deaths per day....."
Ride on, easy riders, and honk your horn at them!
Also see:
"The Mayflower II will not make a planned visit to Rhode Island on Thursday after Governor Charlie Baker announced new coronavirus-related travel restrictions for visitors from the state, Plimoth Plantation officials said....."
He apparently has declared war on them, too.
May God help you both.
"On the ballot: An end to forever wars; The fall election could be a turning point in American foreign policy" by Stephen Kinzer Contributor, August 7, 2020
I'm sure Kinzer means well, and he is about as far as you can go with dissent in the Globe, but he's a fool.
Quick, who’s chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee? Don’t be embarrassed. Hardly anyone else knows either, yet the person who holds this position has great power to shape the world — as much power as the leaders of many countries. Now, for the first time in modern history, there will be a public battle over who gets the job.
That's a little overblown regarding the "great power to shape the world" bit.
It's that kind of arrogance that has led to many mass-murdering war criminal exercises.
This looming fight reflects a sudden surge of support, in Washington and beyond, for the idea that the United States must begin approaching the world in a new way. The consensus that supported a militant American foreign policy over the last couple of decades is weakening. Progressives who have focused their efforts on domestic issues are pushing more strongly for changes in foreign policy. The mainstream is listening. In its newly unveiled platform, the Democratic Party pledges to cut the Pentagon budget, end “forever wars,” and stop trying to depose foreign governments. Until recently, many in Washington considered those ideas to be the province of deluded peaceniks.
This guy not only makes me laugh, he is delusional!
He is taking the Democrats at face value when the platform is clearly written to pander to the progs they need and will betray after the election. In fact, they will berate prog complainers by saying "whadda ya' want, Trump back?"
The level of deceit and evil we are dealing with here is unparalleled in world history.
The underlying reason for this seismic shift is evident. The foreign policy of the last couple of decades has failed. Our efforts to dominate the post-Soviet world have left a legacy of war and instability. The 2020 campaign, and the results it brings, may turn out to be decisive in curbing America’s gluttonous global appetite.
Nothing reflects this new moment better than the showdown over leadership of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The incumbent, Representative Eliot Engel of New York, lost his seat to a primary challenger in June and will leave office in January. Tradition dictates that the gavel should pass quietly to a senior member of the committee who is submissive to party leadership. That won’t happen this time. Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas has declared his candidacy with an insurgent manifesto. “For too long, our foreign policy has been dominated by military and other coercive techniques like sanctions,” Castro said. He called for “direct dialogue with our competitors and adversaries” and “a national conversation about the role of the United States in the world.”
Sounds good, but it sure looks like subservience to the globalist cabal via traitorous self-destruction.
Does he mean to say we are no longer the indispensable nation that the mass-murdering Albright declared us to be?
Are they going to lift all the sanctions on all the countries and put some on Israel?
By deciding what subjects to scrutinize, whom to invite to testify, and which bills to promote or delay, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has immense influence over both American foreign policy and what Americans learn about the world. Representative Castro has resolved not to allow this prize to be awarded as usual, which would be by seniority and behind closed doors. He has begun meeting with anti-war groups to plan a public campaign for the job, something rarely if ever attempted.
Where have these Democrats been all these years, and didn't Biden vote for the invasion of Iraq?
His candidacy is a long shot. He has been in Congress for only (!) eight years, and at 45, he would be the youngest chairman in the House by a decade. He is competing against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s presumed choice, the well-connected Representative Gregory Meeks of New York, but Meeks senses the shift in opinion among Democratic voters, and is positioning himself as an anti-war figure who, like Castro, favors diplomacy over confrontation.
OMG!
Why did he waste my time with Castro when Meeks will be getting the job?
Of course, it would be nice if we got a surprise on November 4th or whenever and learned that the People's House was again a Republican House!
The first sign that war fatigue was reaching a new intensity in Washington came last year, when Congress approved a bill to end US support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen. President Trump vetoed it, but Congressional votes to end American involvement in a foreign war were a breakthrough victory for antiwar lobbyists. They immediately began working to shape the Democratic platform on which Joe Biden will run. After much behind-the-scenes maneuvering, they won Biden’s approval for a pledge that the United States will stop trying to “impose regime change on other countries.” This pledge, if observed, could change the world. The United States has directed the overthrow of at least a dozen foreign governments, and is now actively seeking “regime change” in Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and perhaps elsewhere. For an American president to renounce these campaigns would be a bold retreat from one of our most self-defeating foreign policies.
I'm sorry, but this guy is either one of the biggest idiots out there or a shill.
Let's not forget, Biden was integral to the Obama coup in the Ukraine in 2014, in part so he could get his cocaine-addicted son a no-show job at Burisma.
As for pledges by American presidents, Ford banned assassinations as a tool of state policy and yet the CIA has gone on killing to this day.
Grain of salt, please.
As for Saudi Arabia and Yemen, I can't even remember I saw something in the Globe regarding that unless it was a self-serving piece of slop.
Other straws in the Washington wind also make this a promising moment for those seeking to change American foreign policy. With one powerful House chairman already defeated, progressives are salivating at the prospect that another lobbyist-fueled Pentagon ally, Representative Richard Neal of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, might be upset in next month’s primary by an anti-war challenger, Alex Morse.
Not anymore.
See: Morse Code
We know see another reason why that story happened to surface at this time.
Meanwhile, the year-old Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an upstart Washington think tank that promotes diplomacy over coercive power, has just issued its first major report. It recommends a sweeping reversal of American policies in the Middle East, asserting that “the US military’s large footprint in the region, combined with voluminous US arms sales and support for repressive regimes, drives instability and exacerbates grievances and conditions that threaten the United States.”
A $tink tank said that?
What $tink tank would that be?
Funded by who?
Have you seen their board?
This is the $tink tank he is promoting?
Oh, Stevie!
You are taking us all for a ride!
Debate over the future of American foreign policy is intensifying against a backdrop of rising excitement over the prospect of a Biden presidency. Biden has a mixed record on world affairs. He supported George W. Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003 but, perhaps chastened, opposed Barack Obama’s decision to attack Libya in 2011. Above all Biden is a man of the moment, attuned to the national mood. His lack of conviction opens him to influence from the Democratic base, which is steadily more passionate on foreign policy issues. Sobered by our failure to protect our own people, many Americans are losing enthusiasm for our campaign to dominate the world. So are some powerful people in Washington.
Those "powerful people" (Deep $tate e$tablishment?) never liked Trump anyway, and by the end of this column one recognizes that this guy isn't serious, he is just shoveling $hit.
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I would also like to ask the reader to ponder this for a moment: Four years or so ago, Kinzer was pushing Trump as the peace candidate. Now he is pushing the war-monger Biden in the face of the fact that Trump, up until now, hasn't started a new war with anyone, unlike Biden's boss who started four of them (Libya, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine). Trump pulled the plug on an attack Iran and has tried to get us out of Afghanistan (they won't let him).
Yeah, he has been a stooge for Israel but he is also an aware being who knows it's over if he crosses that bunch. Maybe he is getting advice from Sartre.
Okay, kids, ready for a quiz?
What happened during these important years (answers below)?
1936
1945
1969
1974
1982
2014
Answers:
In 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States took first place in the 400-meter relay.
After Owens won his races, he spoke fondly about how well he was treated in Germany and how Hitler did NOT "snub" him at all.
The snubbing came when he was excommunicated form the Salve, 'er, Democrat Party upon his return home.
In 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a US B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.
One of the two single greatest war criminal acts in world history (Hiroshima being the other), and completely unnecessary. Japan was already suing for piece with the lone stipualtion that they get to retain their emperor.
War criminal Truman then dropped two bombs on them and let them keep their emperor anyway.
In 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally slain at Tate’s Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were convicted of the crime.
Cults are bad, and usually connected to the CIA.
In 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford became the nation’s 38th chief executive as President Nixon’s resignation took effect.
There was more to Watergate than the bubble in which we are lead to believe. Nixon may well have been the last real American President.
The other one had his term cut very, very short.
In 1982, a federal judge in Washington ordered John W. Hinckley Jr., who’d been acquitted of shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason of insanity, committed to a mental hospital.
In this case, there are the unexplored connections (by the pre$$, anyway) between the Bushes and the Hinckleys, and it is pretty obvious in retrospect that since that day, George H.W. Bush was really running the White House. The thank-you notes prove it. They kept the failing old man in the dark for nearly eight years.
Of course, I'm sure it was all coincidence.
In 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18-year-old black man, was shot to death by a police officer following an altercation in Ferguson, Mo.; Brown’s death led to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson and other US cities, spawning a national ‘‘Black Lives Matter’’ movement.
(Bell rings, signaling end of class)
