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And the US didn't commit atrocities in that war? The US also rounded up people based on their ethnicity. The US also dropped not one but two nuclear bombs on Ja
by dkuntz2 13y ago
And the US didn't commit atrocities in that war? The US also rounded up people based on their ethnicity. The US also dropped not one but two nuclear bombs on Japan killing, by some estimates, a quarter million people the vast majority of which were civilians.
Additionally, half of Germany wasn't rebuilt and protected by the US.
And who cares what percent of the budget is spent on defense. A larger defense percentage means less is going to social services and other services dedicated to the betterment of society, instead of implements of war and destruction.
- refurb 13y agoAnd the US didn't commit atrocities in that war? Here we go again! I see this all the time on HN. Insinuating two things are equivalent when they are not even close. Yes the US did bad things like rounding up the Japanese and putting them in internment camps, but no, this comes nowhere close to what the Nazi regime did.
- dkuntz2 13y agoAnd the Nazi regime is gone ... and the US is basically the same as it was... Germany is extra super scared about becoming Nazis again, because they were Nazis. The US has no predilections against doing the same thing again.
- lostlogin 13y agoI'm in agreement with you. I think it should be notes that the US military does have a fairly large social welfare component, education, health etc. Somehow this is ok (its hairy chested military spending!). But social welfare in a more transparent form doesn't get through. I can't find the great thing I read on this recently, but here is the Wikipedia entry on The Hidden Welfare State. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_welfare_state http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_welfare_state