Posted on 08/06/2023 7:01:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's been that way since humans couldn't figure out how to live together in peace or overcome their aggressive nature and greed for more stuff and territory for more power. Think Alexander the Great. Think Romans. Think Mongols. Then you have later day British who conquered much of the world. Sheesh, it just goes on and on.
If you haven't read it, I recommend William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich", which does shed light on this.
From his perspective (He lived in Germany as a reporter from early 1933 right up to December 1940. He actually followed the Germans into France, and actually witnessed the French Armistice being signed and reported it to the world before the Nazi media did. He left in 1940 when the Nazis began to pressure him to report events that weren't true.
He not only watched it happen with his own eyes, from nearly start to end, he was able to personally interview many Germans both civilian, diplomatic, governmental, and military who were directly involved in many of decisions and actions, but also had access to much of the remaining official German documentation before it disappeared into all the memory holes.
If, like many people, you are puzzled by how an intelligent, sophisticated, well educated population like Germany could fall under the spell of a tyrant, Shirer's book gives a window into it.
The continuing communist drive to revise history continues unabated...
Cleaning up history remains one of the last remaining chores for them now that they have total control of the nation...
Most serfs under the age of 40 will accept this propaganda as gospel truth, just as they have been indoctrinated to do in those government schools (K-PhD)...
“They didn’t interview MacArthur about the war in Europe and how it should be conducted.”
Maybe they did and maybe they didn’t.
But why don’t you look up whether or not the MacArthur quote is genuine?
“Idiotic article, very deceptive, and ignores the reality that all of this was in a Cold War context designed to placate Japan.”
I think that’s a good point. That’s a better way to argue against an n article than to insist it’s quotes are fictious without proving they’re fictious.
“Also, every single person interviewed was a geezer who faced no personal danger whatsoever from the planned invasion of Japan.”
True. But do you really think they thought so little of American lives? I think it would be interesting for someone to look and see if the MacArthur quote was genuine and if it was look into why MacArthur was so determined to use atomic weapons in South China/North Korea just 5 years later.
V K, movie buff that you are, I’m not surprised you saw “The Mouse That Roared”. GOP/J pointed also pointed to the film, so I’ll have to see it... thanks.
It’s an old movie but you’ll enjoy it because of your friend’s idea...
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