Reply #6: Throughout the history of wars..... [View All]

[DeSwiss]

...every advantage, especially racism was used to solidify the troops for battle. In America, the purposefully multi-racial nation where anyone theoretically could become a citizen as long as they weren't the wrong color, this was always somewhat problematic. Not just when the enemy was of someone's native land, but the former allies, religious and family connection that crossed ever-shifting borders in the wars that were constantly dividing and re-dividing up Europe's regal realms.

The reality was that Germans, Japanese, Mexicans, blacks and Puerto Ricans were all watched at some time or another, for possible seditious behavior. And even when approved for duty, restricted in their involvement in America's wars to mainly non-combat roles. That is until the complaints of mistreatment and racism, and the old standby of rejection of a race's manhood which apparently could only be proved as a dead man on a battle field fought for bankers interests. But when it got loud enough or the cannons had begun to use up more fodder than was expected they realized, amazingly, that bullets were colorblind.

In the end, those same characteristics the Army was prepared to eschew, helped the American's cause greatly by decoding messages and making our own impenetrable, as when the Navajo Indians Code Talker confused the shit out of the Japanese forever. They still hadn't figured out what was being said to this day, and thought it was an American ruse until the bombs began to fall. I've always said that if America ever falls, it will be the result of a suicide. We're stupid that way.


- Sometimes its like we don't know shit from shinola......

K&R