WORLD WAR THREE

It's 5:32 p.m., Junior's at work and Darth Patrick is here wih me.

Just got back in from feeding, watering and de-pooping the Big Dogs. Don't know why, but I got to thinking about a new way at looking at the 20th century in terms of man's struggle against inhumanity.

As a trained historian, the older I get and the more history I live thru, the grander view I am envisioning.

I grew up in the 1950's and 60's, in an era where two superpowers were one button-push away from global Thermonuclear war. We held drills in school practicing "Duck and Cover" (getting under our desks) as if that would protect us against nuclear bombs. We went to movies like Dr. Strangelove , and On The Beach, and Seven Days in May that depicted the end of the world. We read Civil Defense pamplets that told us to wear straw hats to keep radioactive fallout out of our hair. Whe read in magazines what to stock in backyard underground fallout shelters...

When I was in High School, I was in the John Birch Society and Young American for Freedom, among others that were anti-comminist. We considered the world wide struggle against Communism's avowed plan to take over the world, as "World War Three"-- a war for the minds of men. My new view, developed while chopping Siberian Husky dung out of ice goes like this:

The United States of America was in the forefront of leading the world to victory over Fascism in the First Global War. The Global War on Fascism cost America dearly in terms of blood and treasure, and the world neither repaid us or thanked us. It's a good thing we had Presidents like Roosevelt and Truman to lead us. (That's the war in which Hitler murdered six million Jews.) Fascism was defeated and the half of the world they conquered was liberated.

The United States of America was in the forefront of leading the world to victory over Communism in the Second Global War --The Global War on Communism, which cost America dearly in terms of blood and Treasure, and the world neither repaid us or thanked us. It's a good thing we had Presidents like Nixon and Reagon to lead us (That's the War in which Stalin murdered twenty million of my fellow Russians) Communism was defeated and most of the third of the world they had conquered was liberated, or sent on a new path.

The United States of America is now in the forefront of leading the world to victory in the Third Global War--The War on Islamic Terrorism, which is costng us dearly in terms of blood and treasure. It's a good thing we have Presidents like the Bushes to lead us...

What is disheartening is that some of the same fellows that took up the Communist's side in Global War II, are taking up our enemies' position in Global War III also. I guess once a traitor, always a traitor. Hanoi John Kerry is one that comes to mind. I wonder if he regrets that he wasn't around during the Global War on Fascism to take up Hitler's side? Not so far-fetched is it, in light of the glare of history, eh?

Lady Liberty weeps...

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