Posted on 06/28/2014 5:46:34 AM PDT by markomalley
This is pretty bizarre - even for the Balkans.
Bosnian Serbs unveiled a statue yesterday honoring Gavrilo Princip, the teenager who pulled the trigger in Sarajevo 100 years ago today killing Archduke Ferdinand - heir to the throne of the Hapsburg Empire - and his wife. The event touched off a series of blunders, misjudgements, and misadventures that culminated in the great powers stumbling into a war that few of them wanted and none could foresee the consequences for.
By the time the dust settled in November, 1918, the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires had disintegrated, Russia had gone Communist, and Germany, Great Britain, and France had been bled white. Nearly 40 million died, both soldiers and non-combatants. Ands yet, the man who is largely responsible for starting the conflict is honored as a hero?
You have to be pretty obtuse to ignore the massive bloodletting and celebrate the national impulses that drove Princip and his Clown Car Posse of hapless conspirators to carry out their shocking murders.
Marking the eve of the centennial of the beginning of World War I, Bosnian Serbs on Friday unveiled a monument in Sarajevo to the man who ignited the war by assassinating the Austro-Hungarian crown prince on June 28, 1914.
At the other end of the city, the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra was rehearsing for Saturday’s grand EU-sponsored performance, planned as a symbolic start of a new century of peace at the place where decades of war in Europe started 100 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And from which we haven’t won a war since.
Obama will ensure there is no threepeat.
...which would have diminished the attractiveness of the extremists, who wanted even more than "rights and representation," and who therefore assassinated him.
Regards,
And your point is interloper?
A Higher Power will see to that.
Stephen Ambrose, among others, disagrees with you. He said:
"The big winner in World War II was of course the United States of America. We get much more out of the war than anyone else. It's natural to say that we were suckered, that the Russians won because they got Eastern Europe out of it. But if you look at it with whatever objectivity one can muster about such things, look at what the results of the war were."
The United States came out of the war as the only major participant untouched by bombs or shells, with more food than it could eat, more clothes than it could wear and more steel than it could use, able to economically rebuild both its former major enemies and as the only nation in the world with the atomic bomb to keep the peace.
Now, it can certainly be argued that the United States lost the peace, but as far as winning the war, there's little doubt.
My family background is Hungarian - Jew. My great grandmother immigrated to the US. Somehow she and her family survived the Holocaust. I had one great aunt who went through Auschwitz and survived that.
What about the Puritans?
QBFimi and Islander7 thank you for that other link, I think the music quality might be better too.
They endured so much.
Then they had Communism to deal with.
I know that strength passed to you :)
It had to survive flying in Australia O_o
Obviously, to interlope.
I’d say make to yourself look like a fool, which you pulled off.
Well, I’ve been hoodwinked. According to a few “enlightened” folks, the USA DID NOT WIN either World War, we we just along for the ride.
Honestly, what resides in the woodwork on here is as pathetic as it is humorous.
Did Great Britain gather up all the Puritans and ship them off to America against their will????
I think not...The Puritans left of their own accord to achieve religious freedom from the Church of England....
Some see Princip as a hero, others see him as a zero, but for all intent and purposes, if he did not trigger WWI, something else most likely would. Even so, I remember in 2000, I thought Princip, not Einstein, should have been the Man of the 20th Century, just look at what his two bullets started and we are still dealing with the fallout today.
I made my point at #21. Don’t like it? Tough.
“...And from which we haven’t won a war since...”
Which war did you fight in and what branch of the military did you serve with?
Medic with 1/1 Armored Cavalry, Americal Division, I Corps RVN 1968-69.
Could happen again. In Ukraine.
Thanks for your service...GM2 Navy Mobile Riverine Force attached to UDT12 and SEAL2, Nha Be and Can Tho, South Vietnam, ‘68-’68...
That was ‘68-’69...
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