According to the EU’s newest museum, that’s exactly what happened. An Asian country bombed an American state in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in the European Civil War.
Today we learn that the European Union (our real ruler) is opening a £44m museum that will be a House of European History. This vanity project in and of itself is an offensive waste of money as governments and peoples tighten belts across Europe.
But what I found most offensive of all is that World War II is to be described as “the European Civil War”.
That’s a rather provincial attitude to take, regarding a conflict that saw action from Guam to Alaska and the Philippines to North Africa. For a continental civil war, it was a very far-flung conflict. I’ve personally stood atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, and walked the streets of Paris, France. They’re…pretty far apart.
If this is to be Europe’s revisionist attitude going forward, then on behalf of everyone outside Europe, I ask the continentals from now on to keep their “civil wars” to themselves.
Wow
Orwellian doublespeak taken to new heights!
Last I checked, a ‘civil war’ is defined as a conflict between people of the same nation and nationality. Even the European Theater of WWII was between separate and distinct nations.
Obviously this nonsensical description is meant to reinforce ‘European unity.’ You see, Europeans were ‘always the same people,’ but just didn’t know it!
I remember reading an article in The Economist about France trying to promote Napoleon as one of the “Fathers of the EU”. The article author cheekily suggested that if dominating most of the continent by force is the criteria, then Hitler should also be on the list.
Yeah, and you know what? Those Marines–those humanistic boys from the Greatest Generation– sent home Japanese skulls to their girlfriends without so much as a complaint from the peanut gallery.
And V-J Day was an annual European Block Party that the Brazilians celebrated at the Arc de Triomphe, dontcha know…just throw a few more shrimp on the barbie…
Good thing we didn’t give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor…
… never mind, He’s on a roll!
Well there was that attempted Smithsonian exhibition where Japan was fighting a war against colonialism while the US went to war and used nukes purely out of revenge.
Arguably, the United States fought two simultaneous wars in the early 1940s. I am aware of and do not wish to disparage the British in Singapore, China/Burma, etc. I also am aware of and do not wish to disparage the Australian/New Zealand combat operations. But the U.S. was a hugely vital presence in BOTH European and Pacific Theaters.
Interesting side note: The attack on Pearl Harbor was Japan’s attempt to open the way for conquering the Dutch East Indies by eliminating potential push back from America’s Pacific Fleet. In effect and involuntarily, we fought the Pacific War to keep the East Indies from Japanese control. It was a hell of a reason to fight a global war.
Yeah, the attack against US forces and occupation of the Philippines had nothing to do with our war with the Japanese. Nor the Japanese troops occupying islands in the Aleutians.
And I’m sure the Dutch and British civilians, women and children, interred under brutal conditions in Japanese concentration camps were confused by their captors non-European features, it being a civil war and all.
Easy mate, The Philippines were not chump change, but the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere REALLY wanted the Indies with its haul of natural resources. I believe that the Aleutians were more of a diversion than a Raison d’être.
My point is that the United States waged two wars simultaneously. Even the Russians with their vaunted whining really had only one front. I refuse to cut them slack for their enormous losses because of Molotov-Ribbentrop and their willingness watch the West burn.
And the Germans will never forget nor forgive the Jews for what happened at Auschwitz.
Most of the Planet wasn’t sorry for the camps. They were only sorry they were caught.
That’s pretty funny cuz I was just talking today about how liberals and conservatives tend to view the world. I can say a pragmatic rationalist would observe who won and who lost WW II and see that as the most important and central issue. A liberal could mitigate, excuse, blame and change things around until Germany won. While that’s not literally true, the point is it wouldn’t stop them from trying since seeing beyond the obvious, peering between cracks, reading between lines, interpreting code and dog-whistles is the staff of life to a liberal.
If I had not read this I wouldn’t have believed it. A civil war? Since they’re seeing it as a Euro theater war the Asian part is out for the museum – but it’s still not a civil war; nothing even like one. They’re making the United States of Europe retroactive and still haven’t even gotten to the United States part. Wishful and deluded thinking all rolled into one. You don’t need to look much further to see that IQs in Europe have dropped rather sharply and we’re not far behind.
Here’s to the good ol’ days. The one’s that actually happened.
It’s good to be able to read between the lines. Sometimes, though, between the lines is blank. I’m not sure, but I think we owe this liberal tendency to overthink things to Sigmund Freud. He sort of pioneered the notion that human beings never do anything for the reasons they think they do them – that all thought and behavior has hidden, usually ugly, motivations that only very smart people armed with Theories can detect. Freud thought that digging up these nasty, unconscious things would help people feel better. Liberals think that attributing nasty, unconscious things to…well, just about everyone…will help them win their big argument with Reality.
Thus while the Americans who fought WWII thought they were defending their country, liberals all know that they were really motivated by racism, capitalism, and imperialism. Just ask Tom Hanks.
Rather than a “European Civil War”, it may be more accurate to describe the events of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 as “European Suicide Attempts”. The reason the US garrisoned Germany afterwards was because Europe continued to be on suicide watch (Thank you Red Army!)
This is also an excellent reason to not be enamored of Euro-chic (Sorry Jean-Francoise Kerry!)
tho to be fair to Europe, The Jarre musical dynasty is a pretty good apology for their boorish behavior
I remember reading ‘Overseas Contingency Operations and Cessations of Overseas Contingency Operations’.
It was a fascinating novel. Too bad Lev Tolstoy’s publicist decided to dumb it down as ‘War and Peace’.