"People Who Urge Calm Over NSA Spying Make Me Nervous"

[jberryhill]

58. "Patriotism of the kind that won WWII"

The will to intern more than 100,000 Japanese Americans.

The will to firebomb entire cities in Europe.

The will to incinerate 93,000 people at a single blow, with thousands more dying from the lingering effects of radiation.

That is what was deemed necessary by the "patriotism" necessary to win WWII - the ability to dehumanize and exterminate tens of thousands at a time, in order to demonstrate to our enemies that our industrial capacity for mass death, and our will to use it, far exceeded theirs, while we remained unscathed, with more than 100,000 of our own people locked up and dispossessed by their own country.

Nationalizing our industrial capacity and rationing goods, creating entire secret cities in Hanford, Washington; Albuquerqe, New Mexico; and Oak Ridge, Tennnessee with an unlimited budget and no oversight of toxic contamination which persists to today; drafting a million men into military service while maintaining separation of the races and having thousands die in combat in a single day.

That is what it took to win WWII and we would not stand for any of it today.