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@silvermouse said:
If all else fails, start a war.Why are we the only country in the world, as far as I know that teaches history from war to war rather than time span. The depression does have it's own thing but many times it is tied in with the cold war.
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@edz said:
@silvermouse said:
If all else fails, start a war.Why are we the only country in the world, as far as I know that teaches history from war to war rather than time span. The depression does have it's own thing but many times it is tied in with the cold war.
I'm guessing because it's completely ingrained in who we are. We were founded via war. We beat the British (twice), the French, the Spaniards. We fulfilled our manifest destiny through war. We had a civil war. We won two world wars. We waged war to protect ourselves. We waged war overseas. We waged war everywhere. Really, what's the longest period of time our country has ever gone without engaging in war? We have the 1860s world war I. Other than that? I don't know.
When you play in a lot of wars and you win them all, it becomes your identity. That's just my take.
For Bob: war equals America.
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you forgot the ones we didn't win. Besides, winning is an iffy word considering the slaughter. We are, as human beings, with the ability to think (i'm including friends and foes in that), stupid.
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You and I didn't forget but "we" certainly did!
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@VegasFrank , Spanish American War came in between the Civil War and WWI, in 1898.
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@TRayB said:
@VegasFrank , Spanish American War came in between the Civil War and WWI, in 1898.That's right I forgot. So throw out that 50 years of peace I guess hah.
It's worth noting that the American industrial revolution coincided almost exactly with peacetime in the 19th century.
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Interesting side note, with all that war in our history, one of the main objections to entering WW1 was the prevailing American attitude of distaste for the Europeans wars. The preceding 500 years or so were mostly a history of one King or Government ending up too deep in debt to work their way out and ending up going to war rather than pay the money they owed to "foreign" banks and/or governments.
Kind of looks like another thing that we tend to forget. Perhaps the fact that the victors are the ones who write the history, and have the children, creates an attitude of forgetfulness born of a general acceptance that "well, the good guys won, right?" After all, we're the good guys, and we're here, so all's well that ends well.
Until it happens again.
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