American identity

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 10:27 PM 6/6/01 -0400, Gary Ashwill wrote:
>With regard to recent remarks here about U.S. national identity, check out
>Benjamin Schwarz's review in the Atlantic of "The Good Fight," a children's
>book on WWII by the gravel-voiced Stephen Ambrose (every time I see him on
>tv he's rasping on about the courage and sacrifices of brave men as they
>dared to....etc, etc.).  Ambrose is a proponent of what you might call the
>Hanks-Brokaw (or Lucas-Spielberg) theory of American exceptionalism ("We
>beat the Nazis! We saved the world!  All by ourselves!").  Stalingrad,
>schmalingrad.  Schwarz's review is pretty good.

To be honest, the Soviets had a similar imperial mentality - they called
WWII their "national war."  Yet another prooof that the US is the SU with
money.

wojtek