Comments on: The Next Europe Trip: Will Obama Apologize for WWII?

By: manito

manito — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:34:56 +0000

In case of all-out, no-bullshit war, my guess is no one is permitted to be on-looker, so everybody is a potential target. You live in a big city with some military potential, then don’t be surprised if the other party has painted a big target on your back. My guess is in a war every party commits war crimes, more or less, but the victors write the history. Let us thank the smart people for the A-Bomb, or else we might have had at least 2 more WW since 1945.

By: Rich39

Rich39 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:29:32 +0000

You alwasy attack the civilians. Or the USA does. Read some history.

By: Woloh

Woloh — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:49:24 +0000

Don’t know about Dresden, but an apology to Nagasaki would be nice

By: jh

jh — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:23:56 +0000

Now that Obama has actually been in Dresden and has held his speeches, I’m eagerly awaiting your follow-up article on the matter. I expect it to be something along the lines of: “I was wrong on all accounts. I’m sorry for wrongly accusing and smearing the President…”

By: dan

dan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:51:14 +0000

i believe Obama will be his own downfall. pride always goes before a fall. the german people blindly followed his promise to bring their country back from total bankruptcy. they needed an answer to their failed country and he took advantage of their fear. he took control of the banks and industry and banned guns, is this starting to sound familiar. he promised CHANGE and man did he ever give it to them.

By: Ken Cluck

Ken Cluck — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:33:39 +0000

Diego, no it’s war. War is dirty, ugly and terrifying. After all is said and done the reports are written and the investigations are done by the victor. If Obama apologizes he will be giving fuel to the fire in this discussion and belittling the real crime (the murders in the camps) to apologize to the criminals. I know the argument that it was the Nazis who did all this, but it was the German people who empowered them to do it. Had the German people been so innocent they would have risen up after Krystalnacht. The war was brought terribly home to the German people in Dresden.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:37:11 +0000

Let’s remember also that the bombing of Dresden was consistent with the Sherman Doctrine of all out war. It was accepted at the time that armies should not be unnecessarily hampered by civilian causalities though they should be avoided if possible. Also, there would have been some degree of revenge sought for the horrible bombings of London.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:53:19 +0000

Obama apologizing for actions by the Allies during WWII is like us apologizing for criticizing his apology.

By: Donny

Donny — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:39:54 +0000

Well,the German people were certainly quilty as they followed the designs of an inexperienced narcicistic self-worshiping charismatic leader. Dwight Eisenhower did the right thing when he forced the residents of townsto the death camps to come in and take part in the cleanup. It makes me wonder what horrers await us as we seem to tread down thesame road with our own modern stereotype leader. A radical much as Hitler was. What will the world be like after even more terror, conflict, poverty and suffering at the hands of the social experimenters who want to do it all over again to see if they can make it work. Will the 21 be a century even worse than the 20th? Was a 100 million deaths and the suffering of billions not enough? “When will they ever learn?”

By: Stratomunchkin

Stratomunchkin — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:08:27 +0000

National Socialism was, ideologically, a mix between the Italian corporatist fascism and the stalinist system in Russia. It had highly regulated markets, and instead of direct state control often did not have to assert its control over Germany’s heavy industries because their strategic interests correlated with the industry’s business interests. The “socialist” aspects of National Socialism were more of an indirect approach, resulting from a social and economic experiment whose goal was the formation of a closer “Volksgemeinschaft” and an independence from the world markets to create the foundations for a largely self-sufficient war economy.