How could a weakening of any armed forces be to blame for the terrorist attack in September 2001?
The armed forces really has nothing to do with why someone would attack the US. People within the Middle East have had a hatred for America since we created Israel. And the tug-of-war with the Soviets over alliances with Middle Eastern countries has not helped any. America claims to hate dictators, but when the Shah of Iran was overthrown he wasn't any less of a dictator than the Ayatollah or Saddam Hussein. I was not surprised by the bombing of the TWTC. America has been attempting to tell these countries what to do for years. And quite frankly it wouldn't surprise to find out years down the road that 9-11 was allowed to happen. It is not like we were not warned by the first two bombings.
None of the European leaders really thought, that Hitler was serious. Or didn’t originally see him as a threat.
That meant both Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt.
The Churchill who demanded a no-holds-barred prosecution of the war, was the same Churchill who had been present during the butchery at Omdurman, sent troops to shoot down striking miners, ordered the RAF to use poison gas against Kurdish rebels in British-ruled Iraq (at the time), and praised Mussolini.
Stalin was no more a democrat or liberal than Churchill was. He had already butchered most of the generation of socialists who’d made teh revolution, and had overssen the horros of collectivisation, with the famines in the Ukraine and Kazakhstan. It’s true that in 1939 he made a deal with Hitler to partition Poland and retake control of the Baltic republics, who the socialists had granted independence i 1917. Stalin, unblinking, handed over to the Gestapo German Communists who had gone into exile in Russia and supplied Germany with war materials. Stalin was forced into the war in June 1941, after ignoring warnings of Hitler’s intentions. He simply thought, he had a non-agressive pact with Germany. That doesn’t mean Stalin and Hitler were friends. They both went by the “keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.”
And if Roosevelt had really been as concerned with fascism as he said, why wait two years to break the Monroe doctrine? Until it was obvious the Axis powers were making great advances? And Hollywood finally forgetting it’s pre-war aversion to anti-nazi films like Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”.
Ush> It’s very likely. I was just able to trace anti-Semitism back to the 12th Century.
ChinaNiki> That’s what I mean, when I say: We need to analyse what leads to the destabilisation of the countries in question. Instead of pouring billions into wars, perhaps it would be better to lift the debts and offer help in reliving poverty. (BTW: How’s China?)
British history in schools is a bit focussed on specific history eras too, especially 20th century history. We did all the way up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. I remember thinking "Hang on... that happened whilst I was AT this school! And now I am studying it in HISTORY? Like, there isn't anything else left to teach us, or something?"
well i live in the southern united states... history is very watered down. as a matter of fact, in high school, the basketball coach was the history teacher... he knew nothing outside of the books, and the books were sooooo inaccurate and propagandized, if you even got a book. its almost like the school system here in florida dosn't want you to know history, or they just don't care. and we got the brother of the president as gov. he has been cutting back on education...