"Who won World War II? The
communists did, along with the lovers of big government here at home, who
then used the communist threat to turn America into a garrison warfare
state."
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Who Won World War II?
by Jacob G. Hornberger
I’m always intrigued by those in the pro-interventionist crowd who trot
out World War II to justify U.S. imperialist interventionism in the
Middle East and the rest of the world. They always act as if the United
States won World War II and also saved the Jews from the Holocaust.
Nothing could be so ridiculous.
With respect to the European Jews, virtually all of them were dead by the
end of the war. World War II did not save them from the Holocaust.
Equally important, the United States did not enter the war to save the
Jews from the Holocaust. It entered the war because Germany declared war
on the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
If the Japanese had not attacked and had Germany not declared war on the
United States, it’s not at all clear that the United States would have
ever entered the war. Recognizing that World War I had entailed a total
waste of American lives and resources, most Americans were steadfastly
opposed to entering another foreign war in Europe.
They ostensibly included Franklin Roosevelt, who told Americans during
his 1940 presidential campaign, “I have said this before, but I shall say
it again and again and again; your boys are not going to be sent into any
foreign wars."
Of course, most people now concede that Roosevelt was lying and, in fact,
was doing everything he could to thwart the will of the American people
by provoking both the Germans and the Japanese into attacking first,
thereby trapping Americans into entering the war.
We also shouldn’t forget about the U.S. government’s attitude toward
Jews, including those living in Germany and Poland. Roosevelt’s
government didn’t like them any more than the Hitler regime did. Indeed,
when Hitler offered to let the Jews leave Germany alive, Roosevelt
wouldn’t let them come to the United States
worth. Immigration
quotas was the excuse he used.
For that matter, don’t forget how Roosevelt’s government treated German
Jews in the infamous
“Voyage of the
Damned,” when U.S. officials refused to permit Jewish refugees from
Germany to disembark at Miami Harbor, knowing that the German ship
captain would likely be relegated to returning them to Nazi Germany.
No, the sad truth is that U.S. entry into World War II did not save the
Jews from the Holocaust, nor was that ever a goal of the U.S. government.
“But, Jacob, we beat the Nazis. Doesn’t that mean that we won World War
II?”
Not exactly. You see, it turns on the meaning of the pronoun “we.” By
“we” the interventionists mean “Great Britain, France, the United States,
and the Soviet Union.”
But if you break down that pronoun into its individual parts, you
immediately notice a problem. Great Britain, France, and the United
States didn’t win the war. The Soviet Union did.
Let’s think back to who declared war on whom. When Germany and the Soviet
Union invaded Poland, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany,
not the other way around. Why did they do that? Their announced goal was
to free the Polish people from Nazi tyranny.
Why didn’t they also declare war on the Soviet Union, given that it too
had invaded Poland? Good question! The interventionists never have an
answer to that one.
So, what was the result at the end of World War II? Were the Polish
people freed from Nazi tyranny?
Well, yes, and interventionists love to point that out.
But there is a problem here. While “we” celebrated our victory over the
Nazis for the next several decades, the Poles didn’t.
Why not?
Because they remained under the control of the Soviet Union for the next
several decades! Remember: the Soviet Union is part of the “we” when
interventionists exclaim that “we” won the war.
What’s wrong with remaining under the control of the Soviet Union? you
ask. Well, the Soviet Union was governed by a communist regime, one that
was as brutal as the Nazi regime. Thus, while U.S. interventionists
convinced themselves that communist domination was somehow better than
Nazi domination, the Poles knew that there wasn’t any difference at all.
Then, to add insult to injury, U.S. interventionists used the Soviet
Union -- yes, their former World War II partner and ally that is part of
the “we” -- to justify the massive build-up of the U.S.
military-industrial complex and the national-security state, along with
their ever-growing military and CIA budgets, secrecy, assassinations,
coups, regime-change operations, Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War,
MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, and all the rest that came as a result of the
post-World War II “communist threat” to America.
So, World War II gave us Soviet communist control over Eastern Europe and
East Germany along with an ever-burgeoning warfare state here at home,
and interventionists continue to maintain that “we” won World War II. Oh,
I almost forgot to mention that the post-war era also brought us to the
brink of nuclear annihilation against our old World War II partner and
ally, the Soviet Union, with whom “we” won World War II.
The interventionists say that if the United States hadn’t entered World
War II, Germany would have invaded and conquered the United States. Oh?
Are they referring to the nation that couldn’t even successfully cross
the English Channel to invade and conquer England?
Moreover, there isn’t one iota of evidence that Hitler even desired to
cross the ocean to invade and occupy the United States. Hitler’s
intentions were always to move east -- against the Soviet Union -- yes,
against the nation that would ultimately turn out to be the Cold War
enemy of the United States -- after serving as World War II partner and
ally.
Moreover, if the United States could survive a world in which the Soviet
Union controlled East Germany and Eastern Europe, why couldn’t it have
done the same with a world in which Nazi Germany controlled Germany and
Eastern Europe?
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that the U.S. victory over Japan, while
succeeding in causing Japanese forces to leave China, also ended up with
China in the hands of Mao and the Chinese communists, a situation that
remains to this day. I suppose though that U.S. interventionists would
say that that’s not necessarily a bad thing given that the Chinese
communist regime loaned the U.S. government the money to invade Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Who won World War II? The communists did, along with the lovers of big
government here at home, who then used the communist threat to turn
America into a garrison warfare state.
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-02-16.asp
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