"Remember, to a liberal, anyone who makes money in an endeavor frowned upon by liberals is 'greedy' and any person who expressAs I pointed out in a previous post there is evidence that Teddy Roosevelt had a fondness for the Japanese people whom he believed were superior to all other nation/tribes in Asia. In the late 19th Century TR called blacks a "perfectly stupid people". He believed China was declining and the US could use its big stick to divide up China with Japan - thus keeping it away from Russia. In 1905 TR empowered Japan (first at a treaty signing that was held in Portsmouth, NH at a place I can see from my window) to expand throughout Asia. That imperial decision set the stage for the Japanese expansion that FDR would later disavor. The Roosevelts, it appears are not what Progressive propoganda wants us to believe about them.
Ron Paul's non-interventionism is a direct challenge to the big stick imperialism and social engineering that began in the Progressive Era. This was a time that bigger than life men had decided they could control human destiny and the course of history. This history is difficult for most Americans because it does not place our leaders in a very good light. And it causes us to be more cynical about one the most cherished aspects of our heritage, our involvment in the World Wars of the 20th Century. It hurts the psyche. About the 2009 book, The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War. James Bradley http://hnn.us/articles/121083.html Let's talk more about Theodore Roosevelt's far East policy in the early 20th century laying the basis for World War 2. What's the connection? There was forty years separating them from each other. How did what Teddy Roosevelt did in 1905 lay the basis for this horrific war in the 1940s? People ask, 'How could something that occurred in 1905 have repercussions forty years later? Well, Ken Burns just did a documentary on TV about the National Park system. Apparently if you walk into a national park you're supposed to feel that Teddy Roosevelt had a lot to do with it a hundred years ago. I have a friend who's writing a book on Theodore Roosevelt's helping to create American football. If you watch the Super Bowl this year, you're watching something that Theodore Roosevelt influenced. What Theodore Roosevelt did not only reverberated forty years later but is still reverberating. This is an important President at a fulcrum moment in history, 1905. Roosevelt says to the Japanese, I trust that you're different than rest of Asia. My racial theories tell me this. You are more like Americans. We've got a problem in north Asia. China's collapsing and we do not want the Russians to fill that void. Congress will not give me the troops I would like to use America's big stick there in that beautiful rich part of north Asia. So what am I going to do? So Roosevelt said to himself, I'm going to partner with the Japanese army and the British navy. The three of us are going to push back the Russians and take over China. He did not advocate liberty and freedom for China. You see the significance of that? He called the Portsmouth Peace Treaty negotiations, that sat down to negotiate their differences. They were dividing up a map of China and he didn't invite China. There's no repercussions of something like that? Hosting a peace conference dividing up China, China asking, 'can we come' and Roosevelt saying, No! You've got nothing to say about the future of your country. Yeah, it has repercussions, I think still today. I think that it is indisputable that the problem in WW2 that my Dad was sent to help extinguish was Japan going into Asia. They said in their declaration of war that the problem is Britain and America want to control Asia and we're Asians, and we're going to control it. Japan's going to control it themselves. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
