Better to turn the other cheek or at least give aggressors what they want at all costs to avoid taking a moral stand and sacrificing lives in unnecessary savage wars to show a country’s machismo. WWII Japan and Germany were both greatly racist and the other inferior should have realized better under chains than dying in vain. Even now, would it not have been a far wiser choice to have stayed out of Hussein’s business and saved the US Treasury and thousands of her uneducated children conned into service?
Perhaps, under the benign leadership of the Messiah the world will see a new era of peace and accomodation between the have and have nots.

Or not. Maybe I’m overanalyzing it.

Nah.. if you were overanalyzing you would have found both statements to be somehow racist

Why do we so often romantacize those terrible periods in human history when human beings were so dumbfounded by each other that they could think of nothing better to do than obliterate each other by the millions?

Oh yeah — because one side was “right” and the other was “wrong.” That’s why all that killing was so meaningful.

This was an accepted line of thought in an earlier time; otherwise, we would have never succeeded on 6 June 44, and at other venues.