History 21
Prof. Toshio Whelchel
Weekly reading summary
09/04/13
Paul L.Atwood War and Empire ; Pluto Press (2010)
The United States emerged from World War II , its continental territory unscathed, and richer and more powerful by far . Also , the United States should be pound of the fewest casualties they have . In no doubt , the United States is the empire of the world .
Less than a generation after the Cold War ended, the United States is threatening to attack Iran and Pakistan because of the nuclear weapons proliferation . However, there is not any evidence to prove this claim is true . This pretext of attacking Iran and Pakistan is the strategic goal of United States is to expand their global power . (War and Empire, Page 3)The hypocrisy of condemning violations made the people angry. When in desperation Germany announced it would sink all ships attempting to enter British waters , including American ones , and then they did so. The entry of the United States immediately change the battleground. (War and Empire, Page 12) Otherwise , the American enterprise began in savage violence against the peoples Europeans encountered on this continent . Since the United States emerged from World War II as the most potent nation in history we have slaughtered millions, directly or not , the vast majority being helpless civilians . The American idea system , which justifies and explains the economic and political system, has evolved incrementally . (War and Empire, Page 5)The United States absorb what the economy produced because of the Great Depression . By the turn of the twentieth century , with industrialization utterly transforming the social landscape , the national ideology proclaimed that the American way of organizing society was the most advanced the planet had ever witnessed ,and called for the world to open its doors to American capital . At the start of both World Wars I and II , the American have created this most materially