Have you considered ‘being friends with your neighbors to such a degree that you may count on their help’ as being part of an adequate preparation for what ever we may have to confront in the future?
This is the second time I came across with this video.
While some of the arguments presented ‘inside’ are valid I beg to disagree with its conclusion.
Here are some valid arguments for rejecting that conclusion but I’m afraid they don’t get the gist of it.
America is number one, and has been for quite a while, because she is able not only to weather such soul searching controversy as depicted in this video without falling apart as a nation but also to draw a lot of energy from it.
For self centered foreigners and also for disgruntled Americans such bickering might seem a sign of divisiveness and frailty, but in reality this is how America keeps herself on her toes in absence of credible menace from outside. Well, sometimes she was so successful in scaring herself up that she started such hapless wars as the ones against drugs and poverty but this is another topic.
But when push comes to shove she is able to pull herself together. Hitler, the communist leaders of the USSR and bin-Laden are only a few of those who have mistaken lack of unanimity with lack of strength. They are all history now and haven’t arrived there using the recommended venue…
Being able to adapt to whatever comes to cross your path demands being able to think with your own head and original thinkers are renown for sometimes acting boisterously but that doesn’t mean they cannot team up to cross that treacherous mountain!
“… sitting ducks for German fighters and antiaircraft gunners. Tens of thousands of men perished in the sky over Europe. The entire United States Marine Corp didn’t suffer as many casualties in the War against Japan as did the airmen who flew bombers over Germany.”
So people can do almost unimaginable things when they think their ‘collective identity’ (way of live, common values, etc.) is in danger. If you examine this in detail you cannot fail to notice that while the Marines fought on a more or less stable/natural environment (the sea shore, mostly) the Airmen first put themselves in a very dangerous and unnatural situation – high up in the sky – and ONLY THEN started to fight one another…


