Isn't it just amazing that so few Americans have any comprehension of history? It's not just that they can't name who was President during the Civil War, or in what decade of what century the Spanish-American war was fought ... no, they don't have any memory or understanding of the history of the 20th century and the Second World War. Even many of the people who SHOULD know better because they lived through those years are utterly clueless.
God deliver us from the historical amnesia of the American population! Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.
The thing that slays me is the way the PC/leftist/liberal crowd valorizes our conduct in WWII while our conduct in Iraq is demonized.
NPR did a piece on Ernie Pyle over the weekend, and they were getting all moony over casualties in the Air War with returning Fortresses firing red flares, and the waiting for them, and so on. No mention that these guys were slaughtering innocent civilians by the thousands - tens of thousands!
I watched a show about "Bull" Halsey, who called outright for the genocide of the Japanese - "When I am done Japanese will be a language spoken only in hell" Imagine! Actually, I think he was a little over the top even then. They showed him at some kind of civic leader pep talk, where he humorously did a one-up on "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" He said the only good Japanese was one who was dead for a month - a little abstract, but nonetheless I felt like the civilian audience was taken aback.