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PEACE MOVEMENT Even The Troops Are Waking Up Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-CpCUOygqU Peter Burgess COMMENTARY The USA has resorted to international violence on far too many occasions since WWII. I am not a 'peacenik' but I want a full range of peace options always to be on the table when geopolitical plans are being considered. I don't get the impression that the US does this ... and I think it has caused the USA to lose friends and potential allies over the years. I grew up during WWII in London. I have childhood memories of being bombed by the Luftwaffe and the V1 rocket attacks. I even remember the reaction of my parents when the first V2 rocket landed not far from our house. It was a very different sound ... our first experience of something travelling 'faster than sound'. The noise of the explosion arrived before the sound of the rocket itself! The way the allies bombed Germany in order to win the war was horrific, as was Hitler's idea that the Germans were a super race and that Jews should be exterminated. Decent Germans paid a price ... but, in my view, it had to be done. But there have been too many 'wars of choice' including much of the US response to the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York. A strong response was absolutely necessary, but not the clumsy response that was implemented under the leadership of Bush, Cheney, Runsfeld and Rice. This was not the first of America's clumsy responses. The way the Vietnam War was fought was also incredibly clumsy and should have taught the United States a lot of lessons ... but essentially did not! I spent many years of my life in different parts of the world at a time when it was fashionable to be critical of the behavior of the old colonial countries ... and yes, some of the colonial behavior was pretty bad, but on balance, there was a lot of progress during that era in history. It bugs me that for the Global South, in the fifty plus years of post colonial independence in most countries progress has been slow or even negative. This is a sad situation and should inform how things get done in the present and future. Sadly this is not happening. Rather, the lessons of the past are being ignored ... or selectively implemented to suit the current people in power, whether or not they are legitimate! Peter Burgess | ||
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Even The Troops Are Waking Up
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