Not so much a pissing contest as a blood shedding one
/Crooked Timber - Shedding blood for liberty
Via P. O'Neill, who adds his own observations on claims that Irishmen were stolen 'by force' to fight in the two world wars.
A brawl has erupted over a statement in the stump speech of our favorite Republican candidate Fred Thompson, who asserts that the US has “shed more blood for other people’s liberty than any other combination of nations in the history of the world” As the WaPo points out, our Russian allies lost millions in WWII alone, as did Britain and France in WWI which (at least nominally) they entered ‘that small nations might be free’...
The problem now is that most people in Europe and elsewhere have learned from experience that war is always bad, and usually worse than even bad alternatives, but many Americans have not. For the Republican core, war is a positive good, and victory the manifest destiny of the United States. The myth of American invincibility is modified only by the possibility of domestic treason, which accounts for the defeat in Vietnam and is already being used as a pre-emptive explanation for defeat in Iraq.
Via P. O'Neill, who adds his own observations on claims that Irishmen were stolen 'by force' to fight in the two world wars.
