DURING WORLD WAR 2, MILLIONS OF YOUNG AMERICANS SIGNED UP TO FIGHT GERMAN FASCISM AND JAPANESE IMPERIALISM. BUT THE GOALS OF THE STRATEGIC PLANNERS IN WASHINGTON WERE FAR LESS ADMIRABLE.
IN OCTOBER 1940 AS GERMAN AND JAPANESE TROOPS WERE MARCHING IN EUROPE AND ASIA, A GROUP OF PROMINENT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, BUSINESS EXECUTIVES AND BANKERS WAS CONVENED BY THE US STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS TO DISCUSS STRATEGY. THEY WERE CONCERNED WITH MAINTAINING AN ANGLO-AMERICAN "SPHERE OF INFLUENCE" THAT INCLUDED THE BRITISH EMPIRE, THE FAR EAST, AND THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. THEY CONCLUDED THAT THE COUNTRY HAD TO PREPARE FOR WAR AND COME UP WITH "AN INTEGRATED POLICY TO ACHIEVE MILITARY AND ECONOMIC SUPREMACY FOR THE UNITED STATES"..
OF COURSE THEY DID NOT SAY THIS PUBLICLY:
IF WAR AIMS ARE STATED WHICH SEEM TO BE CONCERNED SOLELY WITH ANGLO AMERICAN IMPERIALISM, THEY WILL OFFER LITTLE TO PEOPLE IN THE REST OF THE WORLD.....THE INTERESTS OF OTHER PEOPLES SHOULD BE STRESSED....THIS WOULD HAVE A BETTER PROPAGANDA EFFECT. (FROM A PRIVATE MEMORANDUM BETWEEN THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT, 1941....)
A HORRENDOUS WAR WAS CONCLUDED WITH A HORRENDOUS EVENT...
200,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED INSTANTANEOUSLY WHEN THE U.S. DROPPED NUCLEAR BOMBS FIRST ON HIROSHIMA AND THEN ON NAGASAKI. TENS OF THOUSANDS MORE DIED LATER FROM RADIATION POISONING....
"WE PRAY THAT GOD MIGHT GUIDE US TO USE THE BOMBS IN HIS WAYS FOR HIS PURPOSES".....PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN 1945.
THE DEFEAT OF JAPAN HAD ALREADY BEEN ASSURED BEFORE THE BOMBS WERE DROPPED. THEIR MAIN PURPOSE WAS TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE WORLD THE DEADLY POWER OF AMERICAS NEW WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION...
WORLD WAR 2 LEFT THE U.S. IN A POSITION OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND MILITARY SUPERIORITY.
"WE MUST SET THE PACE AND ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MAJORITY STOCKHOLDER IN THIS CORPORATION KNOWN AS THE WORLD"...LEO WELCH, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY, (NOW EXXON) 1946.
THE U.S. EAGERLY ASSUMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR DETERMINING THE ECONOMIC POLICIES AND SELECTING, THE MANAGEMENT OF WHAT IT CONSIDERED TO BE THE SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES THAT MADE UP THE CORPORATION KNOWN AS THE WORLD.
BUT THIS DID NOT GO OVER WELL IN MANY NATIONS THAT CONSIDERED THEMSELVES TO BE SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES...
PART 2 ...ADDICTED TO WAR.....
IN OCTOBER 1940 AS GERMAN AND JAPANESE TROOPS WERE MARCHING IN EUROPE AND ASIA, A GROUP OF PROMINENT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, BUSINESS EXECUTIVES AND BANKERS WAS CONVENED BY THE US STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS TO DISCUSS STRATEGY. THEY WERE CONCERNED WITH MAINTAINING AN ANGLO-AMERICAN "SPHERE OF INFLUENCE" THAT INCLUDED THE BRITISH EMPIRE, THE FAR EAST, AND THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. THEY CONCLUDED THAT THE COUNTRY HAD TO PREPARE FOR WAR AND COME UP WITH "AN INTEGRATED POLICY TO ACHIEVE MILITARY AND ECONOMIC SUPREMACY FOR THE UNITED STATES"..
OF COURSE THEY DID NOT SAY THIS PUBLICLY:
IF WAR AIMS ARE STATED WHICH SEEM TO BE CONCERNED SOLELY WITH ANGLO AMERICAN IMPERIALISM, THEY WILL OFFER LITTLE TO PEOPLE IN THE REST OF THE WORLD.....THE INTERESTS OF OTHER PEOPLES SHOULD BE STRESSED....THIS WOULD HAVE A BETTER PROPAGANDA EFFECT. (FROM A PRIVATE MEMORANDUM BETWEEN THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT, 1941....)
A HORRENDOUS WAR WAS CONCLUDED WITH A HORRENDOUS EVENT...
200,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED INSTANTANEOUSLY WHEN THE U.S. DROPPED NUCLEAR BOMBS FIRST ON HIROSHIMA AND THEN ON NAGASAKI. TENS OF THOUSANDS MORE DIED LATER FROM RADIATION POISONING....
"WE PRAY THAT GOD MIGHT GUIDE US TO USE THE BOMBS IN HIS WAYS FOR HIS PURPOSES".....PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN 1945.
THE DEFEAT OF JAPAN HAD ALREADY BEEN ASSURED BEFORE THE BOMBS WERE DROPPED. THEIR MAIN PURPOSE WAS TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE WORLD THE DEADLY POWER OF AMERICAS NEW WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION...
WORLD WAR 2 LEFT THE U.S. IN A POSITION OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND MILITARY SUPERIORITY.
"WE MUST SET THE PACE AND ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MAJORITY STOCKHOLDER IN THIS CORPORATION KNOWN AS THE WORLD"...LEO WELCH, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY, (NOW EXXON) 1946.
THE U.S. EAGERLY ASSUMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR DETERMINING THE ECONOMIC POLICIES AND SELECTING, THE MANAGEMENT OF WHAT IT CONSIDERED TO BE THE SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES THAT MADE UP THE CORPORATION KNOWN AS THE WORLD.
BUT THIS DID NOT GO OVER WELL IN MANY NATIONS THAT CONSIDERED THEMSELVES TO BE SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES...
PART 2 ...ADDICTED TO WAR.....
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