Like Germany, Japan suffered greatly in the Second World War. Virtually all its great cities were levelled either with atomic bombs (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) or fire raids that were carried out by giant B-29 bombers at low altitude at night. The attacks burned the heart out of Japan’s cit...
You mentioned the Estonian prime minister. What’s so striking here is I spent quite a bit of time in the Baltics and they really were traumatized by the Russian occupation, just as the East Germans were as a trauma. The surprising thing is that Norway wasn’t o...
History, too, played its part in shaping U.S. attitudes. On the isolationist side of the scales, the very act of rebellion by the 13 colonies was a turning away from the old, corrupt European powers. “We have it in our power,” wrote Thomas Paine, “to begin the world over again....
Korea wasn't always divided into North and Southlike it is now. While today the differences between the two seem as distinct as night and day, just 75 years ago they were essentially the same nation. Why then, is Korea divided into two countries?
This failure of the private life has always had the most devastating effect on American public conduct and on black-white relations. If Americans were not so terrified of their private selves they never would have become so dependent on what they call the ‘Negro problem’.” ...
87 Words 1 Page Open Document General William Howe led the british troops against the American Continental Army. There were 3,000 british troops led to New york. Boston had prepared to defend New york as the british headed towards them.The British first attacked in the morning of August 27 ...
So, do we return to our isolationist roots? We could only do that if we forget the example, Lieutenant English, of the Greatest Generation. And we ought not forget that example. They’re not called the Greatest Generation for no reason, OK? … We’re going to have to grow the fleet....
But it’s rare, because you don’t usually get both isolationist and evangelizing impulses in the same group. They either stick it out in the world and try to reclaim it, or they keep to themselves. Something that can be a problem is purposeful regression gone out of control. Some grou...
I’m not all that convinced that the US wouldn’t turn isolationist in the event of an IMF bankruptcy and just let it go under. It’s hard enough these days to sell bailing out our own institutions, or paying our explicit commitments. I wouldn’t be at all surprised...
into the war on the side of Britain and France but was dealing with a very strong isolationist sentiment that transcended party lines. That isolationism also had an ethnic strain to it. Millions of Americans were of German descent, and many of them were first-generation Americans whose parents...