Greg Grandin Quotes
Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.' But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition - made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight - had his back.
Grandin, Greg. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. Metropolitan Books, 2019.
The United States is paying the military costs of the War on Terror. However by buying so much oil, a huge amount of our money goes to nations which are supporting and financing terrorism such as Libya and Iran. Even more money goes to Saudi Arabia which while it has trouble with terrorists of their own, follow a strategy that buys off terror groups by financing them directly and indirectly and finances Islamic fundamentalist educational institutions throughout the world which teach hate, intolerance and develops much support for Muslim Fundamentalist terrorists and in some cases finances the terrorism itself.
Soon thereafter the Spanish American War began and when McKinley favored taking the Philippines from Spain, the New York Sun stated, "We are all jingoes now, and the head jingo is the Hon. William McKinley.
This was the 5th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attack.
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The neocons tend to believe that if we can invade a dictatorial country and depose the tyrant, the people could then establish a democracy and that in turn will stimulate neighbors to overthrow their tyrannical rulers and also establish a democracy. The difficulty with that theory as was shown in Iraq, one of their instigated invasion, is that while there are always a small minority of the people who share Western views on Democracy and human rights, most of the people do not. Theocrats, fanatics, fascists, ultranationalists, all strive to shape the society to their view (and settle old scores) and the result is either gridlock or Civil Wars, The societies do not have the institutions to support a democratic society and we do not have sufficient nation building skills, to make up for the shortcomings.
But that is exactly what they did and the First World War was on. Europeans and Americans have often underestimated the political force of the common membership in the Orthodox Church.
Greg Grandin (born 1962) is a professor of history at Yale University. He previously taught at New York University. He is author of a number of books, including Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as for the National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. A more recent book, entitled, Who Is Rigoberta Menchú?, focuses on the treatment of the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner. His 2014 book, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, is a study of the factual basis for the novella Benito Cereno by Herman Melville.
