I call it World War II syndrome.
Movies, TV and "history" taught in schools show the U.S. defeating Nazi Germany. Nope. By the time we finally got around to landing in France, the Russians had defeated Germany at Stalingrad and had marched all the way to the suburbs of Warsaw. Hell, half the troops at Normandy were from the British Empire, Free France and Poland. Without these allied troops there would have been no Normandy landing.
This "World War II Invincibility Syndrome" has impacted our foreign policy ever since. We bully everyone. Never mind the Korean War was a draw and we were defeated in Vietnam, and eventually in Afghanistan.
Now we are being defeated by Iran.
But the moron politicians and generals still want to play soldier, kill people and steal stuff.
This is a country, where the Secretary of Defense can go on T.V., and tell the American public, oh, that "This is about freedom! It's not about oil!" And nobody questions him, cuz they don't wanna hear the answer, because it's a lie."



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