Being aggressive and hateful to the entire world at once will tend to requires substantial bodyguard resources, and will eventually fail.
Peace based upon respect and respect for hard-won rules and structures is the right road.
Switzerland learned this lesson through bloodshed, after a disastrous campaign in which nationals supporting the Duke of Milan got caught in reprisals from his foes, thus beginning the great Swiss tradition of neutrality in foreign conflict.
While I won't argue about the relative morality involved in World War 2, I will argue that all ensuing wars the USA has been involved in have ultimately undermined it's prospects for future peace.
It seems like many of my fellow Americans need a history lesson vis-a-vis Iran.
The USA and UK conspired to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian prime minister Mossadegh, as he threatened to nationalize (their own) oil, which Standard Oil, among others, didn't like very much (Shades of United Fruit and Guatemala anywone?)
We then attempted to install the Shah (we knocked down their democracy because it was too lefty, then we put a king back on the throne.)
The 1979 revolution was a direct reaction to this, and could have been seen coming from a decade before.
This was initially a real revolution, but of course, they purged the lefties and students out and installed a right wing religious government, rather like many Republicans want for America.
And we have the nerve to hammer on them for desiring self-actualization... incredible.
Peace based upon respect and respect for hard-won rules and structures is the right road.
Switzerland learned this lesson through bloodshed, after a disastrous campaign in which nationals supporting the Duke of Milan got caught in reprisals from his foes, thus beginning the great Swiss tradition of neutrality in foreign conflict.
While I won't argue about the relative morality involved in World War 2, I will argue that all ensuing wars the USA has been involved in have ultimately undermined it's prospects for future peace.
It seems like many of my fellow Americans need a history lesson vis-a-vis Iran.
The USA and UK conspired to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian prime minister Mossadegh, as he threatened to nationalize (their own) oil, which Standard Oil, among others, didn't like very much (Shades of United Fruit and Guatemala anywone?)
We then attempted to install the Shah (we knocked down their democracy because it was too lefty, then we put a king back on the throne.)
The 1979 revolution was a direct reaction to this, and could have been seen coming from a decade before.
This was initially a real revolution, but of course, they purged the lefties and students out and installed a right wing religious government, rather like many Republicans want for America.
And we have the nerve to hammer on them for desiring self-actualization... incredible.
Hypocrisy is not even the beginning of it...