It also laid the basis for the Ku Klux Klan and a century of lynchings, as well as fomenting an enduring Southern reverance for the military and a never-ending desire to get back at the North somehow, someday.
>WW II - ended fascism, laid basis for world order under U.S. dominance.
Ah, the Good War! Yep, we got rid of the Nazis, but we also as you note created the basis for US global domination, which hasn't -- as we shake the anthrax spores out of our morning mail -- really reduced the global tensions between haves and have-nots ... which is the basic, endlessly destabilizing problem we have to solve.
>You could add the Contra War, which ended Sandinista rule, and helped
>put an end to Third World nationalist and/or socialist revolutions
>everywhere.
For how long?
Carl
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