Blue Print for America going to War?

Hermann Goering was a Nazi war criminal. Commander of the Lutwaffe (air force), he was the main Nazi leader tried for crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials, eventually being sentenced to death (he committed suicide right before the death penalty was to be carried out).

I stumbled across one of his quotes last night and wanted to share it with you:

“Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England now in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for the lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”


When I read that I was amazed. I mean, it jumped out, to me, as the blue print for America going to war.

I guess the only people learning from history are the leaders who use it, so it can, as they say, repeat itself.