Reply #23: Divernan, it's much worse than that. [View All]

[Kailassa]

The fact is, American History has always been a heavily censored propaganda course to trick Americans into unquestioning adulation of their own country. Text books that were not sufficiently censored were thrown out and never used. Americans have always been lied to about what their government has done overseas, so even if Americans realized some harm had been done they would be already sold on the idea that far more good was done. And there was always self interest, the knowledge, deep down, that anything done overseas was enriching America, and it would therefore be unpatriotic to question it.

I expect you already know about the late 19th century invasion of the Philippines, taught to American kids as the Philippine Insurrection. Even then people resisting U.S. occupation were libeled as insurrectionists. Nothing has changed, U.S. fortunes have always been based on war, slavery and drugs.

This is not said to criticize anyone in particular. People are the same the world over, and I suspect it can all be worked out mathematically that certain conditions inevitably lead to certain events. Or, to put it another way, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.