Why America Remains Trapped by False Dreams of Hegemony
Over the course of many evenings in 1952 and 1953, when I was a kindergartner, my family gathered around a hand-me-down TV in the Chicago housing project where we lived to watch Victory at Sea. With stirring music and solemn narration, this 26-part documentary produced by NBC offered an inspiring account of World War II as a righteous conflict in which freedom had triumphed over evil, in large part thanks to the exertions of the United States. The country had waged a people’s war, fought by millions of ordinary citizens who had answered the call of duty. The war’s outcome testified to the strength of American democracy.
Here was history in all its seductive and terrible magnificence. Here, too, was truth: immediate, relevant, and compelling, albeit from a strictly American point of view. If the series had an overarching message, it was this: the outcome of this appalling conflict had inaugurated a new age in which the United States was destined to reign supreme.
The series had a profound effect on me, reinforced by the fact that both of my parents had served in the war. For them and for others of their generation, the great crusade against Germany and Japan was to remain the defining event of their lives and seemed destined to define the lives of future generations, as well...........To Read More..
My Take - The Bretton Woods era is over. We can no longer afford to patrol the world...for everyone else's benefit. Before America gets involved in foreign interdiction one question must be asked. How does this benefit America? Involvement in this Russo/Ukrainian War does not benefit America. None of this was our fault, nor our responsibility, and it's costing us hundreds of billion of dollars and weakening our own national defense, for a completely corrupt dictatorial government that has Joe Biden and his crime family in their pockets.
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