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Originally Posted by hkbajwa  Anyhow as to the rest of the article i would call it a bunch of self-righteous silliness. The War on Terror is not a conventional war. The war in Iraq has nothing to do with the WOT. In fact the attempt to link WW2 patriotism with the Iraq war is a sad attempt at connecting things that have no similarity. WW2 was a retaliation against a nation that had ACTUALLY ATTACKED the US ( as opposed to fake claims of WMDs). WW2 was a war that was thrust upon the US, not one that the rich elite went looking for. WW2 was a war the americans fought because they were called to it ( as opposed to imposing it on the world inspite of world opinion). WW2 was a matter of safeguarding friednly nations against another superpower ( as opposed to the Iraq war which was a matter of safeguarding oil interests- unsuccessfuly).
In WW2 the people were not able to get detailed information on the incompetence of the war effort ( like "losing" 200,000 automatic rifles or $2billion in cash) In WW2, the average american was convinced of the righteousness of the war effort ( but the Iraq war was controversial from the start - and rightly so, since it ws clearly a bad move). The reason the Iraq war is being criticized so much is because your leaders can't pull the wool over your eyes so easily any more. It has NOTHING to do with the level of patriotism of the people.
WW2 was a different time, a different world, with a different level of awareness. The comparison is moot. The US needs to move on from WW2. This is not that world anymore. | WW2 was about liberation, yes the US entered the war following the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese, but we liberated Europe first. Germany never attacked the United States. Our men and women went to war to liberate the countries of Europe for the tryanny imposed by a dictator upon the people (Hitler). Iraq is about liberation as well, do we have an oil interest in Iraq, yes, the whole world does, and the US believes that energy is paramount to national security, but then so does: China, Britain, Australia, Japan, Spain, Canada, etc.
When the war in Iraq first began the majority of Americans supported it, and believed it was the right thing to do, it was not until after day after day after day of negative stories by the main stream media, did opinion begin to change.
The original post was right, this type of criticism did not occur during WW2, nor would it have been tolerated, by the people or by the government.
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |