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Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 06:13 PM by JailForBush
The class has spent the last few days studying the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. They're shocked and disgusted by the Nazi's crimes. "How could people do such things?" they wonder.
Their teacher explains that the Germans were punished quite harshly by a treaty that ended World War I. Their humiliation and economic woes pushed them over the edge; they were ready a demagogue.
"Certainly, that doesn't excuse their crimes, but it helps us to understand them."
A student asks, "So what about Americans?" They practiced genoicde against Native Americans and lynched African Americans. They stole lands from Mexico, Spain and the Hawaiians. And that was all during the 19th century.
"During the 20th century, the United States waged proxy wars against nations in Latin America, Eurasia and the Middle East, as they replaced European colonialism with their own brand of imperialism.
"At the beginning of the 21st century, Americans went off the deep end, invading Afghanistan and Iraq, threatening other nations for simply not supporting their crimes, and starting a new global arms race.
"After George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004, the U.S. conquered Syria and Iran. When Russia, Pakistan, India, China and other nations offered some support to Iran, the U.S. lashed out blindly, killing millions of people. At the same time, the federal government clamped down, persecuting millions of its own citizens with a ruthlessness that was compared to Stalin's mass murders. And all of this transpired during the greatest environmental catastrophe in recorded history."
"So what motivated Americans? Had they been deeply humiliated in war? Were they afflicted with grinding poverty? Were they threatened by a military takeover?"
THE PROFESSOR:
"None of the above. In fact, the United States ranked as the planet's biggest warmonger from the late 19th century through the first quarter of the 21st century. The U.S. government was humiliated after losing a war in Vietnam, but they more than made up for it by conquering several other nations, unleashing technological blitzkriegs that made the Nazis look like amateurs.
"The U.S. was never threatened militarily until George W. Bush's second term in office, when a coalition of nations united to protect themselves from America.
"Millions of Americans did live in poverty - a testimonial to their hypocrisy and corporate corruption. But the majority lived in relative grandeur compared to peoples in most other nations. Americans who were born between about 1950 and 2000 were the most pampered generation in world history.
"So why did they throw it all away and follow a madman into the abyss? This question has stymied historians for centuries. Most have no answer other than 'apathy and stupidity.' It almost seems as if Americans had a death wish; their minds were so rotted from affluence, technological entertainment and brainwashing, they either didn't care what their government did or they actually rallied behind their worst enemy; history tells us that millions of Americans adored George W. Bush.
"Some historians compare Americans to the dodo, a flightless bird that was quickly exterminated by sailors. The closest analogy among other nations is probably the Romans, another great empire whose power and excesses were finally ended by relatively primitive tribes that exploited its internal moral decay.
"But Americans had every opportunity to study their plight, thanks to electronic media. They had a democracy. They were largely protected from their enemies by two oceans and a military arsenal capable of destroying the entire planet. Yet they destroyed themselves virtually overnight.
"I subscribe to the school of thought that uses an ancient vulgarity to describe Americans; they were the biggest assholes in world history."
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