The America I love: Good while it lasted
The country that I love is behaving like a spoiled child. There is a new way of doing in American government that replaces trust with fear, understanding with punishment, and reason with revenge.
After World War II America purposely became the moral standard for the world. Perfect we weren’t, but we were way ahead of most of the rest of the world. We were self-serving and looked out primarily for our own interests, but we did it by being helpful to other nations, not through cruelty and deception, and especially we were not vindictive.
After World War II President Truman instituted the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. We had seen what exacting retribution on Germany after World War I had done. Seeking reparations had bankrupted our former enemies and created conditions in Europe that fostered a bitterness towards the victors, leading to dictatorship and a desire to replace the shame of losing the war with a policy of nationalistic hatred and revenge.
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