Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Churchill Quote Assesment

Although it seems hypocritical of us to view Nazi agression as wrong, when so often the United States has used agressive tactics in controlling their territories, I think that the two are different. Hitler's aim, and the Nazi mentality, was to complete erase, eradicate, and eliminate an entire race of people. I think that this is the critical difference between agression of Germany and the agression of other nations. Even though the United States committed atrocities in the Philippines and in their Latin American interventions, I don't think the aim was to eliminate a complete race of people, to "blot them from the map of the world", so to speak. The agressions of the United States were a result of imperialistic policies, while German agression was the result of world domination.  Even other acts of agression, such as British atrocities in India, and French control of German territory, while horrible events, are not on the same scale as the Holocaust.