For Such a "Great Country", Does Any Country Have a Nastier Past 200 Years Than the US?
Let us briefly count up the sins:
-- human slavery and racial segregation
-- the near extermination of native Americans
-- participation in and starting major and minor wars every few years, killing millions of people, gravely wounding millions more people
-- massive aerial bombardments, with conventional and incendiary bombs, killing untold numbers of people
-- the unprecedented nuking of hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima/Nagasaki
-- WWII Japanese internment camps
-- regular meddling in many other countries around the world, generating "low intensity conflicts" that kill hundreds of thousands
-- false flag terrorism, killing thousands of people and starting wars that led to more death
-- bioweapons/chemical weapons research and use
-- biological, psychological and radiation experiments on unsuspecting civilians and servicemen
-- torture and murder of "enemy combatants"
-- massive financial scams
-- excessive consumption, generating planet-damaging levels of pollution
-- constant propaganda, endless government lies
Let me know if I've missed anything.
The obvious retort here is Nazi Germany-- and clearly what the Germans did in WWII was horrific. But it's not clear that what they did over the long run was worse than what the US has done, and numbers-of-dead-people-wise, it may work out to about the same number. And the US breaks the tie with the nuking of the Japanese.
Note, I am not saying Americans are particularly evil-- that is, more than any other group of people-- and obviously Americans do lots of good things. But it is striking to tally up the truly horrible things that have been done in the name of the US-- and then contrast that with the constant propaganda put out by the elites here that the US is the greatest country in the world, or even in the history of the world!
-- human slavery and racial segregation
-- the near extermination of native Americans
-- participation in and starting major and minor wars every few years, killing millions of people, gravely wounding millions more people
-- massive aerial bombardments, with conventional and incendiary bombs, killing untold numbers of people
-- the unprecedented nuking of hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima/Nagasaki
-- WWII Japanese internment camps
-- regular meddling in many other countries around the world, generating "low intensity conflicts" that kill hundreds of thousands
-- false flag terrorism, killing thousands of people and starting wars that led to more death
-- bioweapons/chemical weapons research and use
-- biological, psychological and radiation experiments on unsuspecting civilians and servicemen
-- torture and murder of "enemy combatants"
-- massive financial scams
-- excessive consumption, generating planet-damaging levels of pollution
-- constant propaganda, endless government lies
Let me know if I've missed anything.
The obvious retort here is Nazi Germany-- and clearly what the Germans did in WWII was horrific. But it's not clear that what they did over the long run was worse than what the US has done, and numbers-of-dead-people-wise, it may work out to about the same number. And the US breaks the tie with the nuking of the Japanese.
Note, I am not saying Americans are particularly evil-- that is, more than any other group of people-- and obviously Americans do lots of good things. But it is striking to tally up the truly horrible things that have been done in the name of the US-- and then contrast that with the constant propaganda put out by the elites here that the US is the greatest country in the world, or even in the history of the world!
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http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=US_interventions_project
http://www.historycommons.org/timelines.jsp
“Agent Orange is responsible for the deaths of 400,000 people.”
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=vietnam
“The PNAC architects seem to have anticipated with cynical accuracy, the use of the September 11 attacks as "a war pretext incident."
The PNAC's reference to a "catastrophic and catalyzing event" echoes a similar statement by David Rockefeller to the United Nations Business Council in 1994:
"We are on the verge of global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
Similarly, in the words Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book, The Grand Chessboard:.
"…it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus [in America] on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter was one of the key architects of the Al Qaeda network, created by the CIA at the onslaught of the Soviet Afghan war (1979-1989).”
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO312A.html
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2255
This is German but the pictures of the old landing strip (Long Cheng) are eerie.
http://www.zweitausendeins.de/display/?d=8239
From there, there were 580,000 flights for the sole purpose of destroying. 2.1 million tons of bombs. Countless gallons of Monsanto/Dow Chemical "Agent Orange".
A documentary on the topic starts (theaters) tomorrow (May 4) in Hamburg.
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