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(Had) Germany won WWII, our history books would be very different, yet the "good guys" would have still won. Norman Spinrad: The Iron Dream" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Dream And, of course Phillip K Dick: "The Man in the High Castle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle |
Actually, the South has won the battle of history. "The Birth Of the Nation" and "Gone With the Wind" sealed the deal. True, it's not popularly called the War of Northern Aggression, but for generations the cause of the war -- the continuation and geographic expansion of slavery -- was obscured by arguments about states rights. Just this past week our President made statements minimizing the importance of slavery in the conflict. To this day there are more U.S. military bases named after confederate leaders than Northern generals. Genghis Khan is generally considered the worst mass killer in history, but Caesar's Gaul campaigns probably put him over the 1 million killed milestone. I don't know for a fact, but as a percentage of the population that may actually put him "ahead" of the big league 20th century tyrants. How come Emperor Hirohito gets a pass. Military deaths, war crimes and starvation in the Pacific/SE Asia war area approach 10 million and that doesn't include their actions in China. |
Let’s not forget Khmer Rouge (Cambodia) Khmer Rouge - Wikipedia Wikipedia › wiki › Khmer_Rouge Jump to Number of deaths - In 2014, two Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Kheiu Samphan, were jailed for life by a UN-backed court, which found them guilty of crimes against humanity and responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million Cambodians (Khmer), nearly a quarter of the country’s then population, during the "Killing Fields" era between 1975 and 1979. |
I did not say he gets a pass, I said "from a theological view " . A well known prophet said "Love thy Enemy " . He didn’t say it to help your enemy , but to tell you that in the long run, aka infinity, what your enemy does is on him, what you do is on you . Same reasoning behind another well known saying of his, "turn the other cheek " . Most of the 30-40 thousand kids that died in Hiroshima never were in the Army . Not to mention every honest historian knows A-bomb was dropped to show Russia we had one after they defeated Hitler and started to invade Japan . Japan had peace feelers out at the time . |
