History deniers don't change history - ask the Banana King.
BTW - here's a good book for you:
Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 (Zenith Military Classics)
http://www.amazon.com/Das-Reich-Division-Military-Classics/dp/0760344914/
The author, Max Hastings, is a Brit Lefty whiner, but he did a pretty good job laying this one out.
Americans are such starry-eyed idealists, probably because we haven't been evilly massacred enough times.
America is not Europe. We gave ourselves a clean slate and for the most part it has kept us together so that internal conflict does not become an international incident. We slipped up once.
I remember the Clinton years and the mood we are in right now is very similar. The AWB was enough to get some fellas in my area ready for a hot war. Then government changed. Now, with Obama, the very same topics are back again. Funny how that works.
Keep the long game in focus.
If you are interested in history, compare how Medicare was passed (and with what debate) to ObamaCare. Times are changing.