TR wrote:
Freeman,
You're the man.
Freeman is "the man" for being so SHOCKINGLY IGNORANT and unable to interpret the CLEAREST MESSAGES or learn THE CLEAREST LESSONS FROM HISTORY??
I trust you were being sarcastic, TR.
Here, Freeman demonstrates the analytic skills of the average Paramecium (while intoxicated).
He tries to claim the moral high ground for the US for what it did prior to Pearl Harbor to prevent the spread of the Axis powers...
He calls the war against Hitler and the other Axis powers "YOUR WAR"!!!
This is IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY ON A TRULY MONUMENTAL LEVEL
Hitler and the Axis had a long history of picking fights with their innocent, pacifist neighbors, attacking them, invading them and enslaving them.
EVENTUALLY, HAD HE NOT BEEN STOPPED, THE UNITED STATES and the Americas WOULD HAVE BECOME HITLER'S NEIGHBOR (he having conquered most of the rest of the world). AND THEN HITLER WOULD HAVE INVADED THE U.S., AND HAVE ULTIMATELY WON, FOR ALL THE RESOURCES OF THE WORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN AT HIS DISPOSAL.
Nuclear power would not have stopped this happening. Germany was far ahead of the US in terms of DELIVERY via MISSILES - von Braun - V2/V3 - one would have thought even a JANITOR at NASA would have known, Freeman, how the US space effort got started.
SO, IF NOT FOR THE EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN OPPOSITION TO HITLER, YOU IDIOTIC IGNORAMUS FREEMAN, IT WOULD BE YOU WHO WOULD BE SPEAKING GERMAN - IF YOUR PARENTS HAD BEEN PERMITTED TO SPAWN YOU AT ALL!! I only speak in such a jingoistic way, for that is the "argumentation" employed by Freeman in his original spewing into this thread!
Conclusion:
IT IS THE COWARDLY, FOOLISH AND IMMATURE "UNITED STATES" THAT INSTEAD OWES FRANCE AND BRITAIN A DEBT OF GRATITUDE FOR BEING THE ONES WHO FIRST STOOD UP TO HITLER AND OPPOSED HIM AND FOR HAVING THE FORESIGHT TO SEE WHAT WAS ABSOLUTELY NEEDED.. (if only they had acted a year earlier!).
It was purely selfish self-interest that made the US do what it did. And it did it grudgingly. And it gave next to nothing - IT LENT, and at USURIOUS RATES OF INTEREST, secured on the british Gold held in Canada for safekeeping.
The lack of opposition to Nazism and the Axis dictato-imperialistic regimes was not rooted in U.S. Wickedness. Instead, it was rooted in U.S. naivete, immaturity, STUPIDITY and feelings of invulnerability. The U.S. had members of the Freeman Class dotted all over its Government!
The period from the early 1930s to the end of 1941 is a period of which the EDUCATED American should largely be ashamed of his country's skulking isolationism, cowardice and unbelievable stupidity... that it was just "THEIR WAR"... "YOUR WAR".
Freeman, do you have WW1 and WW2 confused? Where were you educated? Just curious.
"YOUR WAR" indeed... Where Hitler and the Axis was concerned, EVERY PERSON WHO VALUED LIBERTY, FREEDOM AND, YES, LIFE ITSELF, HAD A DUTY TO MAKE IT "THEIR WAR".
To congratulate the US for exactly that for which it should be condemned requires a specific mix of stupidity, crassness and ignorance:
"YOUR WAR"... Freeman's Intellectual Epitaph.
Here, therefore, is today's reading for Freeman:
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience."
- George Santayana (1863-1952), A GREAT AMERICAN THINKER, from his "Life of Reason", Volume 1, Chapter 12, page 284 of the 1905 edition.
Not, of course, that I am angry, though U.S.-inspired millions of dead kids and innocents, massive world pollution and irreversible global destruction are things which should make me "hot". That others have been worse in the past is wholly irrelevant, and an idiotic consideration. The worst traits of immature, unthinking human nature are often observed in US policy.
But, the giving of knowledge (leading as it might to the inculcation of maturity, even wisdom) to the unfortunate comprises a blessing for the giver as much as the ungrateful recipient!
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(No Heep Of Iniquity Me! Class)