Can American Journalists handle the historical truth?

Has the Myth of the ‘Good War’ Done Us Lasting Harm? https://t.co/AHGSrwrt8o

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) December 4, 2021

NYTらしい間抜けな表題 

 

 our mythologizing of war, particularly our triumph over fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism in the 20th century.

And there is a cinematic quality to the images that Samet revisits, projected into our collective memory like a black-and-white newsreel: our troops distributing chocolate to children, receiving kisses from Frenchwomen and liberating concentration camps while the arsenal of democracy hummed back home.

To Samet, this mythmaking reached its apotheosis around the turn of the century, with the publication of books by Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. It is hard not to blush a little when Samet quotes Brokaw’s declaration: “This is the greatest generation any society has ever produced.”

A sizable “America First” movement sympathized with aspects of Hitler’s ideology, which borrowed from our history of white supremacy. Americans were reluctantly drawn into war only after Pearl Harbor, and liberating the Jews was never a priority. Racism permeated our military forces — most obviously in mandated segregation, and in the restoration of Confederate war heroes in the naming of military facilities and the narrative of national greatness. In the firebombing of German and Japanese cities, the United States was indiscriminate in its use of violence. For U.S. troops who fought, the war was often something to be endured and not celebrated.

現在でも第２次大戦の歴史の真実に直面できない。

今できるわけもない。 

腕っぷしは強いが真実に直面する勇気はなし、それでいて、自分は一番えらいと思っている・・・・・・・なんていうか・・・こんな国のために戦争に巻き込まれていいのか？

アメリカのジャーナリスト・・・・サイコパスだよなああ。