Since this is the CDZ I am not allowed to give the kind of description the above post screams out for.....yet no one should be surprised ,,,,this is the sort of junk presented to gullible kids in our public schools and universities....even elitist universities...thus--none of us should be amazed when kids absorb this leftist propaganda and spew it out on public forums.
Uh, dude, I'm 57, and served in the Army at the time of the Gulf War.
And my view is kind of the same. Imperialist nations always try to rationalize their behavior by dehumanizing the people they conquer as "Less Civilized" or "Barbaric". This is a tired old story.
This sort of propaganda actually began long before the revival of fundamentalist muslim jihad began.
You are quite right here. I'm old enough to remember when the Vietnam War was going on, and as a kid, watched John Wayne's "The Green Berets", which was filled with the kind of imperialist propaganda. Of course, when the Vietnamese wanted us out of their country, they were savages. And we still haven't forgiven people like John Kerry or Jane Fonda for questioning the whole thing.
The majority of Germans were not nazis...but look what happened there.
Okay, let's look at that. My family was from Germany originally. I had one uncle who joined the NSDAP to keep his cushy government job, and another who was thrown into Nordhausen for criticizing them. (My Grandfather emigrated here and my Dad served in the US Army, being at Normandy and the Bulge.)
No, the vast majority of Germans were not Nazis, but they went along with whatever Hitler proposed, and fought for him down to the last old man and little boy. I would argue that Germans are probably the most culturally and technologically advanced people in the world, but look how very little it took to provoke them into the worst savagery?
Anyhow good to see you mention Kipling...a current revival of interest in him and the truths he presents so eloquently. He was too long demonized by Marxists.
As well he should be, by anyone who is a decent person. The guy was a racist and an apologist for imperialism. Today, the British look back at that period in their history with a bit of embarrassment.
Beyond pathetic and quite embarrassing that Americans can be this clueless.....and these folks and (there are many of them)....otherwise known as democrats --demonstrate a huge,huge reason why America is now down on her knees waiting for the coup de gras.
Being a tad melodramatic, are we? Most of America's problems are self-inflicted, because Old White Guys are too greedy. We don't need to go to the other side of the world to find the cause of our problems, just to Wall Street and Washington.