History
My area of study is US history. I enjoy studying from about the Mexican-American War to present day. I like to focus on aspects of US history that not many like to look at, the atrocities of US history. I feel that too much of our history is patriotic and does not always tell the truth. History is very objective and we should learn to analyze everything we read and not just believe the status quo.
This is the land we gained after the Mexican-American War in the late 1840's. The question at hand would be the people living in this land for 200 years before the US claimed it. The Treaty of Guadeloupe was to protect their land rights, but much of their land was taken away by land speculators.
This is General Sherman of the Union Army during the Civil War. He incorporated a scorched earth policy, in which he burned every town, barn, or crops that came in his army's way. This included confederate troops and southern civilians!!
This is a picture after the fire bombing of Tokyo, Japan during WWII. Prior to dropping the Atom Bomb, the US destroyed 60% of major Japanese cities by dropping napalm. The US was not attacking military targets, but entire cities. Was in necessary to kill all of these civilians??
LBJ, the president during the Vietnam War. He was quoted by saying, "I will not send American boys half way across the world to do a job that Asian boys should be doing themselves!" 50,000 plus deaths later..... The US entered the war because we were supposedly attacked by a North Vietnamese ship. The sailors on the US ship that was "attacked" had no recollection of the events, and most notebley, the LBJ Tapes even have LBJ telling Robert Macminara that he wanted a reason to "get these guys."
What will we learn from the present, when this is considered the past?????
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