[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:57:51 -0000
I'd have said WWI and II (here and across Europe, are the War
Memorials set up after the First War; one in almost every
village).
But I take your point.
> Hoping your cold passes quickly,
thank you, Eric. I'm feeling surprisingly sorry for myself,
mainly because
of the lost sleep. I bought some pretty fierce anaesthetic spray
(it
probably isn't sold over there!) and some comforting cough
medicine...
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 6:46 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot
> Eric: In a way, that's the USA's fault. We made your culture
> that
> way ... helped you rebuild, swaddled you in nonaggression,
> secure from a Soviet assault, full of the moral superiority
> because you had an older brother to fight your fights for
> you.
>
>
> Judy: ... is I'd say wrong (incorrect). "Europe" is less
> bellicose than
> the US because of WWsI and II. (I wanted to say something
> about the
> Cold War, also about differences within "Europe", but,
> another time.)
>
> I was discussing Germany in particular. Still, Europe was
> not less bellicose because of WWI. World War II started 21
> years after the first war ended, so obviously the Great War
> did nothing to dampen bellicosity.
>
> WWII was the locus of change, and this change was wrought
> (especially in Germany) by the US occupation and
> transformation of (part of) a totally defeated nation.
>
> As with Japan, the US feared Germany's warlike traditions
> and wanted to make sure it would be stable and peaceful.
>
> Unlike Japan, modern Germany has no immediate pressing enemy
> now that the USSR is gone, so it's free to adopt the moral
> superiority tone. If North Korea and its other threats were
> gone, Japan, I assume, would be just as dismissive and prone
> to the "more civilized than thou" trope.
>
> Hoping your cold passes quickly,
> Eric
>
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