Posted: 3/1/2013 1:01:44 AM EDT
Im watching a documentary about WW2. Amazing how America became so close and pulled together to win such a war. Its sad that todays (my) generation is a bunch of idiots who mostly hate America and could give 2 shits about history and freedom; it makes me sad to see what was such a great country now falling apart. 
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Im watching a documentary about WW2. Amazing how America became so close and pulled together to win such a war. Its sad that todays (my) generation is a bunch of idiots who mostly hate America and could give 2 shits about history and freedom; it makes me sad to see what was such a great country now falling apart. 
We had the same idiots back then. |
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Im watching a documentary about WW2. Amazing how America became so close and pulled together to win such a war. Its sad that todays (my) generation is a bunch of idiots who mostly hate America and could give 2 shits about history and freedom; it makes me sad to see what was such a great country now falling apart.
We had the same idiots back then. Not as vast as today's idiots it seems. |
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Im watching a documentary about WW2. Amazing how America became so close and pulled together to win such a war. Its sad that todays (my) generation is a bunch of idiots who mostly hate America and could give 2 shits about history and freedom; it makes me sad to see what was such a great country now falling apart.
We had the same idiots back then. Not as vast as today's idiots it seems. They were, in fact, the reason we got smacked in WWll by the Japanese. By and large the US was in a non-interventionist mood; we didn't want to become involved with the problems of the Old World. It took the Japanese attack on PH to make us so pissed-off that we went to war. Notice, however, that even though we got hit in the Pacific, we immediately decided (or more correctly, had already decided) that Germany had to go down first. IMO December 7, 1941 was Hitler's worst day... and Churchill's best. |
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I'd like to point out that the "idiots" who say we shouldn't be involved in foreign wars today fail to recognize that they are repeating history... and the US does NOT wish to repeat that history. The parallels aren't exact... but let's say that we see a nation that is solidly anti-American arming itself with a large arsenal (as the Germans were doing, against the Versailles treaty). What should we do? Let them rearm until they finally use those weapons... or smack 'em down?
If we'd gone in with France and England and smacked down the Nazi regime in '35, how many millions of lives would have been saved? (Of course, back then we didn't have a tenth of the men in uniform to perform such a feat. American felt too safe behind the Pacific and Atlantic barriers.) |
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It just amazes me that everyone pulled together, even Japanese americans fighting their own. We saw some of that after 9/11, but it didn't last long before we were back to the same crap. Nothing near the 1940's though. Well, technically the 100th and the 442nd RCT were deployed to ETO/MTO. They were in Italy and southern France. Not allowed to be deployed into the Pacific, for fear that conflicting loyalties might arise. And they did yeoman's work, too. Buddy of mine has a great-uncle who was part of the 442. |
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General Sun Tzu who write the book the art of war in ancient China has rules for war that still apply;
"One does not take an Army to war, one takes a nation to war". America has lost this principle the Marines are at war America is at the mall or watching their 401ks. War has to have not only a military mission but just as important a political one, our politicians only mission is to get re-elected, and that is both sides of the aisle. |
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IMO December 7, 1941 was Hitler's worst day... and Churchill's best.
"To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder." –– Winston Churchill |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Im watching a documentary about WW2. Amazing how America became so close and pulled together to win such a war. Its sad that todays (my) generation is a bunch of idiots who mostly hate America and could give 2 shits about history and freedom; it makes me sad to see what was such a great country now falling apart. We had the same idiots back then. Not as vast as today's idiots it seems. Sure there were, only they couldn't broadcast goat molestation to the world like they can today... Tom Brokaw and his 'greatest generation' propaganda would have you believe that everybody raised the flag at Suribachi themselves. Tom fails to state that it was that generations parents that were the real movers and shakers of the WWII era. Readers like to be stroked... Only the stories of heroism and patriotism survive, the tales of desertions and asshattery tend to just go away. The WWII generation did what they had to because there were few options. Given the same environment, the 60s generation would have performed the same way. Their parents thought they were worthless... I have great confidence that the bulk of today's youth will be fine adults once they come to grips with their responsibilities and what society expects of them. There will always be significant percentage of lowlifes, leeches and criminals. |
| Then we were fighting fascism and naked aggression against our shores by other sovereign nations at a time we were ascending as the dominant industrial power. Now we spend more than we did during the Cold War fighting illiterate goat fuckers for a period three times longer than WWII while our factories get shipped off to our next big adversary. |