"Don’t Be a Patriot"

He mentions the 1950 Korean War (a war in which my dad fought and he nearly died twice. Yes. Nearly died twice for gooks). Trivia: the U.S. had zero legal/constitutional authority to send troops to Korea in 1950. Zero! It was a total joke and President Harry Truman was a total asshole.

Quote: "I confess that I was once such a patriot. This was the sort of mindset I carried for many years. America, right or wrong, I was proud to call it my home and to defend its honor before its many detractors. I believed, for instance, that the North was on the right side of history when it sought to overthrow the South’s rebellion during the Civil War — a war justified because it supposedly sought to free negro slaves. I was persuaded that whatever reasons lie behind America’s entry into WW1, it was justified. The same may be said when I considered the events of WW2. I implicitly trusted America’s court historians to tell me the truth. The wars that came after, such as the Korean conflict, Vietnam, The Gulf War, and the ensuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were all necessary and grounded in vital American interests (or so I thought)."

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2024/06/14/dont-be-a-patriot/

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