Posted on 06/07/2012 5:36:36 PM PDT by Misterioso
There were fortunes made by American industrialists in WW II and we can see the influence of a few of them to date...
“anarcho-capitalist society”?
Beyond silly.
I know an 88yr old WIA ex-paratrooper I call “Dad” who
would still take a swing at somebody spouting that stuff
in his presence.
For the record although a draft was in place prior to US participa-
tion in the war once we joined in the draft was utilized to parse
volunteers into numbers that could be handled by the limited
number of training facilities at the time. In other words there
were more volunteers than training facilities could handle even
though new centers were added. Many were told to go home
and wait for a letter from “Uncle”.
True. What most people don't realize is that the German forces were literlly split between two fronts not only after D-Day, but through the whole war. From 1941 on there were almost always equal forces on the Eastern Front under Oberkommano Heer (Army Central Command), and tied down in the West under Oberkommando Waffen (Armed Forces Central Command). Had Hitler not had to worry about the USA and Britton he would have had twice as many forces to throw at Russia. Not to mention the huge effect of the allied Strategic bombing campaign. ALbert Speer did a brilliant job keeping German war production up, but a huge cost of resources, plus it tied down thouands of fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft crews that could have been used on the Russian front.
“The Russian will never let you forget for a moment you are a hated enemy on his soil. He isn’t afraid of fire. He needs little food or sleep and he will willingly sacrifice his own life in order to kill you’’-— German POW speaking to Allied intelligence officers. Regardless of who sat in the Kremlin, Russians soldiers and civilians would have gone on fighting and killing Germans for as long as Germans were on Russian soil. Russians weren’t fighting for the “Party’’ but for “Rodina’’,’’ Holy Mother Russia’’.
This post is a confusion of WWII with a lot of other things.
I hope young men in the military do not get confused by reading claptrap such as this.
While there are large banks, Rockefellers, intellectual elites and big corporate interests, they each act with their own interests.
I wish people would stop brainwashing the military with false and exaggerated conspiracy theories; the truth is bad enough, and if one is believing a lie, it can get in the way of understanding the truth should one come across it.
Hitler was not a good guy, he was an idiot who was clever at manipulating for his own personal power gains and happened to be conducting his world-domination exercise with the benefit of being in a country where the norm was exceptionally good intelligence, hard work and devotion. If Hitler was the leader of a nation of people who did not have much on the ball, he would not have been the threat he was to the whole world. He was a threat to the whole world because a) he was nuts and b) he was in complete control of a nation with immense capabilities, which, of course, he put to the most corrupt use.
The real lesson to be learned from WWII is to stand up for what is morally right early and always, and stand up in the right way, and to try to uplift the morals of society instead of bringing them down. Immorality - which includes sloth and apathy as well as pride, covetousness, lust, greed, etc. (see the KJV Bible for a complete list) - is always a direct path to the downfall of a nation.
The citizens of a nation rightly can be drafted to come to the nation’s defense.
To think otherwise is to think the thoughts of one who is defeated and enslaved and tormented because they were too cowardly to fight to protect others. A nation of citizens who refuse to defend their own nation is a collection of people soon to be trod underfoot by a dominating power.
That being said, an unrighteous government, that is, one that seethes with corruption and immorality, forcing immoral behavior on it’s good citizens, will inevitably either attack other nations without a just cause, or, through it’s dealings with other nations or it’s own obvious weakness, unnecessarily invite an attack on it’s own people.
To use the WWII German example, there was at least a 5-year warning to German citizens that Hitler was leading their nation down the road to ruin. If the thousands of influential leaders in Germany were perhaps a bit more insightfully honest, and perhaps had a bit more courage, one could imagine that the ideology of Nazism could have been derailed prior to it’s own military actions earning the nation the wrath of war.
But that’s neither here nor there, as all things happen according to the Lord’s will, and we can’t undo history.
We certainly can, however, learn from history.
I can’t help but rhetorically wonder where on the timeline of ruin are we now ?
And more apropos to our own predicament, are we coming up with the plans to derail the ideology of communism, and all it’s false promises, within our own government ?
What about communism’s wicked stepsister, socialism, who comes to stay for a weekend and ends up impossible to remove, addicted, partying, pregnant and living on government assistance ? And all her friends, the rich crony capitalists that she parties with, the media that markets her ways and corrupts other people’s children, and the elitist educators who rationalize her wickedness ?
Are we spreading the good news of escape from the bondage of immorality, fear and sloth amongst all the current generation ?
Only if this generation hears the truth will any of them stop to consider it and perhaps believe.
That’s the only way a group with enough influence to reject the evil in the politics of our day can materialize.
Non-sequitur.
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