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http://watchingamerica.com/News/225261/why-doesnt-america-learn-its-lesson/The United States, which emerged from the womb of Great Britain and replaced it as the Western colonial power, did not learn its lesson from the experience of others and not even from its own experience.
Why Doesnt America Learn Its Lesson?
Al-Khaleej, UAE
By 'Ali Jadarat
Translated By Hannah Ridge
20 October 2013
Edited by Bora Mici
The military leader of the Vietnamese Revolution, General Vo Nguyen Giap, died a few weeks ago, decades after the death of its political leader, Ho Chi Minh. The two led their people in a revolution that inflicted defeat on two aggressive imperialist powers: France in 1954, and the United States in 1975. Thus, it was natural for the sons of the Vietnamese people to scramble to say goodbye to Gen. Giap. In terms of the crowd, it was second only to Ho Chi Minh's funeral, and no wonder. Giap became an inspiring symbol to his people, rather, to all the colonized peoples who won freedom and independence under the leadership of the great and noble men who founded and led the Bandung Conference of Nonaligned Nations. They are: Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi, Nehru, Abdulnasser, Sukarno, Mao Zedong, Tito, Castro and Guevara. The national liberation movements for the peoples Great Britain had colonized were over before Vietnam's full independence Great Britain, the empire where the sun never set, forced to withdraw from the pearl on its crown, India, and then its central Arab country, Egypt, and arriving at Indonesia's independence under Sukarno's hands. What is the meaning of all this?
With the fall of the British colonial empire, direct colonial regimes left history, and everything became an effort to restore them, though in a different form. Not reaping the ideological dream led to frustration and failure. However, the leaders of the United States, which emerged from the womb of Great Britain and replaced it as the Western colonial power, did not learn the lesson from the experience of others and not even from its own experience. They reaped more of their own tragedies and got the opposite of what they wanted more than once. There is a lot of evidence of this. Perhaps the most important of it includes:
- First: In 1945, the U.S. was overbearing and directed its nuclear strike at Japan. What was the result? Today, Japan is a power that not only does not compete with the United States, but also agrees with it on all subjects, like technology for instance.
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In short, all the American wars for control over basic centers of the world have turned into escapades. The U.S. has either failed and suffered defeat or won temporarily. However, in the final analysis, it has gotten the opposite of what it willed and wanted. Why? Because U.S. leadership does not learn the lessons of history and their necessary consequences. To be precise, it is not possible for it to learn because it was originally born out of the womb of a racist, imperialist, European, regime settlement that it destroyed, also destroying tens of millions of native inhabitants in the American continents after their discovery.
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Why Doesn’t America Learn Its Lesson? (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Nov 2013
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(48,181 posts)1. we are the exception! USA USA USA