See the previous entry where I describe how the anti-American, despicable Associated Press and AOL have tried to bootstrap an alleged "massacre" in the Korean War by South Koreans into another major indication that the U.S. has been a force for evil in the world for a long time.
This, of course, was Reverend Wright's thesis as he claimed that the U.S. has been a major TERRORIST nation even as far back as World War II, with the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and has remained at least as bad as the Islamic terrorists ever since. The fact that leftists generally AGREE with this thesis explains why so many of them DEFENDED what Reverend Wright said, even as Barack Obama found it politically expedient not to try to defend Reverend Wright's view of the U.S. as a major source of evil in the world for its entire history. That the leftist mentors and cronies of Barack Obama share Reverend Wright's view is probably the reason that Barack Obama saw no problem with what Reverend Wright said during those 20 years that Obama supported Reverend Wright's church. You think Reverend Wright's views are an aberration? Think again.
PBS presented a series of documentaries in the past week or so alleged to have the thesis that the United States and its allied became just as bad as Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in the effort to win World War II. This IS the Reverend Wright thesis--especially as applied to "people of color" like the Japanese (lest you forget, FDR put Japanese AMERICANS in "detention camps" in one of the less defensible actions of the U.S. in response to Pearl Harbor, even though it was a very human reaction. How far PBS really went with this thesis, I do not know, because I did not watch (why should I?).
However, the advance hype was that the PBS documentaries cited the fire bombing of Dresden and Tokyo, as well as the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, to show that we were hardly the clear "good guys" in World War II. More strangely, it was reputed that the PBS documentaries cited the alliance with the Soviet Union under Salin--at least as EVIL a country as Nazi Germany--as further evidence that the "Allies" in World War II were willing to unite with the devil (Stalin) to defeat another devil. This is just as shade strange since it is sort of the PAT BUCHANAN theory, as he has grown senile (my brother's term, as that brother actually voted for Buchanan way back when). It is LEFTISTS (PBS type) who used to be APOLOGISTS for the Communists of the Soviet Unon--often seeming to regard them as superior to the U.S. This is because leftists LIKED communism and disliked capitalism. This caused them to be blind to the real evils of Stalin. But the overall theme of leftists has remained the same: the U.S. is the main source of EVIL in the world, picking on others. Since the "fall" of the Soviet Union, and admission (basically) by Russia that the Soviet Union was an EVIL empire run by evil people, the left has pretty much abandoned its alliance with Communism (if not its liking for communism).
Thus, we have come full circle. A LEFTIST broadcast source (PBS) has faulted the U.S. for alliance with a monster, when it was the LEFT which MOST favored coming into World War II on the side of the Soviet Union, and defended criticism of the Soviet Union after World War II--to the point of blaming the U.S. for the Cold War (see recent entries in this blog).
Now go back to the previous entry about the truly disgraceful AP/AOL story trying to blame the U.S.--the second time they have tried--for a massacre by South Koreans. Note the new "allegation" that we gave "permission" for the massacre to occur. "Permission" is one of those terms of art the anti-American, despicable AP uses to try to get across how evil America acted, even in the Korean War. We need to be honest here. Mistakes are made in the heat of war. The fire bombing of Tokyo and Dresden were probably MISTAKES--militarily pretty useless, and therefore not "worth" the humanitarian costs. War is Hell (General Sherman). The atomic bombings WERE militarily useful (ending the war), although you could debate the choice of targets. In all events, the people who died in the doubtful fire bombings of Tokyo and Dresden were many multiples of the people who died in the alleged "massacre" in Korea, and they almost surely died in more agony. There was actually probably MORE justification for the "machine gunning" of the 3500 people by South Korean troops. None of it changes that the overemphasis on wartime mistakes, or alleged mistakes, is a LEFTIST thing--what I call the Reverend Wright syndrome. The U.S. was NOT the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany, whatever mistakes we might have made in the way the war was waged.
But did we give "permission" to the Soviet Union to engage in evil. OF COURSE WE DID. Aside from standing aside (our advisors and diplomats standing aside) from interfering in numerous Soviet atrocities in World War II, FDR could be argued to have given Stalin PERMISSION to oppress Eastern Europe at Yalta. It would not be too much of a stretch (not really more than the AP anti-American stretch as to the Korean War incident) to say that our failure to follow Patton's advice, and take on the Soviet Union at the end of World War II (when we had a nuclear MONOPOLY), represented some kind of PERMISSION for Stalin to kill the twenty million (give or take 5-8 million) he killed in out of favor parts of the Soviet Union after World War II (arranged famine, etc., in addition to direct purges and "machine gunning").
Were we really responsible for the evils of Stalin? Nope. We just may have made mistakes in not dealing with Stalin more aggressively when we had the chance. Now the LEFT might be regarded as having moral responsibility for much of the evil that Stalin did, since they were APOLOGISTS for the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union. Hungary and Czechoslovakia would eventually pay for the "permission" that Stalin got at Yalta, and from the left, as they fought Soviet tanks with their bare hands (in revolts long before the Soviet Union fell).
Yes, we had an evil ally in World War II, and did not do enough afterward to restrain that ally. Yes, there was a time we even used Saddam Hussein as a sort of ally. World politics works that way, and it is only the LEFT (including the anti-American AP and AOL) who want to make the U.S. out to be the major source of evil in the world because we have not always been on the side of goodness, sweetness, and light, and are capable of mistakes.
Now is it wrong to analyze Tokyo and Dresden bombings as mistakes, if they are put in the context of a war for the very soul of world civilization? Of course not, just as there is nothing wrong with a history of the Korean War referring to the "massacre" the AP wants to make a current "news" story. It is the taking of these events out of context, to make the U.S. out to be an evil country, that is WRONG. It is not just anti-American, although it is that. It is WRONG. It distorts history, for no legitimate purpose. It is sort of like saying the Jews deserved the Holocaust because a few Jewish people may have engaged in usury and sharp money practices (not saying that they did, but that the Holocaust would not be justified even if they did, and it is certain that SOME Jews were not admirable people, because the Jews are human beings like the non-Jews).
By treating all countries and people (Islamic terrorists) as equally evil, you are committing sophistry. You are also making it impossible to act rationally, if you take the leftist view that we are not allowed to act against evil people in the world because we, ourselves, are often guilty of committing evil. That merely cedes the world to the forces of evil (as failing to oppose Hitler would have done).
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