We Should All Be Alarmed that J.D. Vance Doesn’t Know How World War II Ended
“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation,” Vance claimed during an interview with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press.I don’t have a huge problem with American ignorance in general; otherwise it would be impossible to live day-to-day in today’s United States. But enduring it at the top of our federal government is a different matter.
In this case, it’s worse for me, insofar as it’s personal. My father, a B-17 bomber pilot whose mission was destroying Nazi oil refineries, was one of 16 million military personnel who fought in the Second World War. I don’t think he’d look kindly on the idea that Germany “negotiated” a settlement after the U.S. and its allies pummeled the Third Reich into submission and its leader blew his brains out.
I miss my dad terribly, but this is one of those moments when one is actually glad that a loved one didn’t live long enough to see some incredibly embarrassing debacle.
There’s an old Quaker saying that goes like this: “Concern thyself not with the speck in thine brother’s eye when thy hast a log in thine own.”
When a right-of-center newspaper calls out a Republican president for his moral atrocities, you know something very strange is happening in the good ol’ US of A.
Legendary environmentalist Paul Hawken once said, “Caring for our planet isn’t a way to get rich. It’s a way to be rich.”
Apparently, happiness derives from taking care of one another and the planet.
Retired US military intelligence officer and freelance writer Jim Wright gives us the gem at left.
Have to admire this guy’s sense of humor.
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Re: the words at left, it depends on whom you ask. In fact, the only reason we’re destroying our planet is that there are plenty of people whose main interest is the profit associated with doing so.
In his heyday, John Cleese and his sardonic wit had great appeal, not only with the Brits, but even with Americans. It’s unclear how all this would play in today’s dumbed-down U.S. society.
