On 2 September 2012 22:55, Roland.francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Commercial or not, the real question to ask is whether there is truth in it.
Dear Roland, I don't see it as very "true" because the subtle propaganda here is that the USA "was" a great nation. Is that really so? And if so, when *was* it? AFAIK, it has been the Empire since at least 1945, if not longer than that. Of course, 1776 and all that is the stuff that fires the imagination of most, and one might look up to *some* (not all) of the values dating back to those times. But let us not forget that even there too there are some little-spoken of realities. Like the attempt to play off one colonial power of the times against another, and benefit from the process. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War Take a look at the US record of overseas interventions, and forget all this talk of fighting for democracy or whatever: http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html It's not just Republicans versus Democrats; it's something far deeper. If at all the US was "great", one has to concede that it has had a great propaganda machine. Just like those who argue that India has always been a peaceful power, etc, etc. Scratch deeper, and the reality is quite something else. FN
