It's been a grim month in the larger world, a grim month in a grim year.
I was born in 1941. It was a grim year. The world was at war. It got grimmer. Seven weeks after I was born, Pearl Harbor was attacked. Things may not be as we would like them to be these days. But they could be much worse.
Things can always be worse. But Americans should widen their vision to include the rest of the world. There are far too many places where things are already very grim indeed.
ReplyDeleteBut what good does Americans widening their vision do for those in places where things are very grim? And why Americans? Or do all the rest of the people in the world have a sufficiently wide view? Americans view in 1941 was wide enough to cost a lot of Amercans their lives.
ReplyDeleteSo you believe that what the US does has no influence on events elsewhere? (I'm including American companies.)
ReplyDeleteThis is particularly troubling because the average American knows very little about history, economics, statististics, geography, etc. -- in short, a basic education which enables informed choices (and no, I don't mean liberal choices).
You might also want to check the number of Soviet military casualties in WW II as compared to the American.