Why haven't we as americans discovered the secret to winning a war is unity..like WW2?

Question

I just find it difficult for us to have the lessons of history directly behind us showing the importance of unity at home, and what the results are when we don't stand together.

Answer 1

Right on! I am not American... yet I have more national pride then a lot of "Americans" out there! They cannot believe that 9/11 happen and it is all a set-up!

I agree... there is no real unity in this country!

Answer 2

Are you saying that nothing should be done if there isn't unity at home? America is a much different country than it was in WWII. When my grandparents came to this country, their goals were learning to speak English and to become Americans in every way. Today, immigrants come to America but they aren't interested in learning our language and they aren't interested in becoming truly American. Without that, we can't have unity.

Answer 3

The secret to winning was unity at home. People came together-they sacrificed. They banded together & did what had to be done here to make sure our fighting men (and women) during WWII had what they needed to get the job done. Gas and food was rationed, no one griped and bitched about it, they just did what had to be done.

We need that now, if we are going to win this thing. But we are too selfish and self centered. It's a shame.

Answer 4

i am going with to have self assurance we would (and could). yet conflict on the instant isn't something like what it grow to be in WWII. The enemy is different, the targets are different, the procedures are different and the weapons are very different. The resistance and hindrances to victory come from no longer in basic terms the enemy. we ought to attend to a public view of the conflict from a grandstand seat. If, God forbid, we wreck a non-defense force development we are able to work out it on CNN one hundred situations interior the subsequent 24 hrs. we are able to interview the enemy and submit their P.O.V. And the "out-occasion" in Washington will rail against the errors being made, enormously as any election attracts closer. interior the top, we are able to win this new type of conflict in basic terms by using the perseverance, capability and dedication of our defense force management (which incorporate the commander-in-chief). Victory comes whilst the enemy realizes that usa is unwavering in its willingness to stand as much as. individuals are good human beings. We nevertheless have braveness, and a powerful sense of real and incorrect. we are able to be led previous our skepticism, our fears and our doubts. yet in basic terms a particular form of chief can take us there. God help us if we p.c.. the incorrect one.

Answer 5

During WW2 we all had a common enemy that ACTUALLY posed a threat to the United States, I somehow severely doubt Iraq would have ever posed a direct threat to the U.S.. And just F.Y.I. There were plenty of people who were opposed to the war during both world wars, You just don't hear all that much about it.

Answer 6

The secret to winning WWII wasn't unity...it was the ability to make entire cities vanish...

Answer 7

no one truly comes out as the true victors in armed conflicts. everyone loses because wars are a no-win situation. there are no lessons to be learned either cuz wars are stupid !

Answer 8

Go grab your history book and see what ended WWII. The A-bomb. Think we ought to go back to "the good ol' days"?

Answer 9

It takes unity in other places besides here, there is none in Europe :
EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)

A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, "Europe - your family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head because it's so terribly true.
Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives, as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.
Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe, where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.
Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us.
Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European Appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance," now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.
Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush .. Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program.
And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic Fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany?

I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists.
One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler and declaring European "Peace in our time".
What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction.
It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness. Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for Anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush.
His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against Democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have passed.
In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China.
On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those "arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes.
Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic, so devoid of a moral compass.

For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake - literally everything.
While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation ... Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to "reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive".
These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbor's house.
Appeasement?

We are left with few real allies! We must take the fight to the enemy, the terrorists! We are the only remaining super power, the duty falls to us. This su(ks, but that's the way the ball bounces.

With the back bones of jello that our politicans have, we have hard row to hoe! The enemy numbers increase with every failure on our part, we're seen as soft and weak.

We need a whole new leadership in this country and we seem to be arriving at this to slowly. We may soon face dire circumstances for our reluctance and hesitation.