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Dec. 23, 2004 Yes, I do believe America is dying. I also believe there is nothing to be done at this late stage of the game. Of course I’m an old man, pessimistic, disgruntled and disappointed with my failures. Why shouldn’t I have a crappy outlook? Putting away my personal reasons for a cynically glum view of America’s future, allow me to digress, historically speaking. As World War II was winding down the Allies, America, Britain and the Soviet Union, held several conferences. The previous seven years had been hell on earth. 100 million men, women and children were killed outright or savagely maimed. Some were brutally wounded both mentally and physically. “The Big Three,” along with other countries ravaged by war, agreed to form a “United Nations.” A “joining of hands” of all nations, so carnage of this magnitude might never be repeated. In February of 1945 Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea. Germany was all but defeated and would surrender in a few short months. Roosevelt was a sick and dying man. Winston Churchill and Stalin, for the most part, decided the fate of the world. With major concessions in hand, Stalin agreed not to stand in the way of the “coming together” to form a “United Nations.” A conference was scheduled to take place in San Francisco, the date June 6, 1945. Barely two months following Yalta, on April 12, 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry S. Truman assumed the duties of the Office of President of the United States. Mr. Truman had a lot on his mind. The Japanese were fighting fiercely in the Pacific. Long before we heard the term “suicide bomber,” Kamikaze pilots were crashing their planes into American ships. Mr. Roosevelt had failed to keep his Vice President apprised of many things, including the development of the Atomic bomb. The war in Europe was over, but American servicemen were still dying in Japan’s outer islands. On that June 26, 1945 fifty-one countries, including the United States, became signatories and founding members of the new “United Nations.” The world shaping event took place while an American President, two months in the job, was attempting to play catch- up and also wage a war in the Pacific. After repeated demands for surrender of the Japanese forces, President Truman authorized the use of the new Atomic bomb. On the morning of August 6, 1945 the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. After seeing the horrific devastation of Hiroshima, the Japanese government still refused capitulation. On August 9, 1945 a second Atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Japanese government finally got it. On the morning of September 2, 1945 Japan formally surrendered aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. Four years of war in the Pacific was over in barely a half-hour. World War II was history. America, along with the rest of the world, celebrated. No one in the United States realized, three months previously, terrible mistakes had been made. The mistakes took place on June 26, 1945 when a harried and preoccupied new President, and a Congress sickened and weary of war, ratified the United Nations Charter. It’s all been downhill since then. Some who happen to read this article may have been children during this time in our Country’s history. Most I would bet were not even a gleam in their daddy’s eye when these monumental events took place. The United Nations has never accomplished, nor even pursued, the ideals for which it was created. The United Nations is a political entity and as such has only one major goal, its own growth. Its growth is sustained by influence which creates wealth, which in turn gives birth to power. When any political entity garners enough power it can, like Joseph Goebbels, perpetrate the “Big Lie.” The “Big Lie” in this case is the word “Globalization” and its definition. For those interested, Part 2 to follow. ------------ About the author James B. Bergstad: I've explored this planet for sixty-six years. For the most part it's been a blast. I now indulge my passions of reading, writing and painting. My novel "Hyde's Corner" is awaiting publication. It is a taut period/drama set in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Sheriff Selmer Burks presides over the destruction of three families and the corruption of Hyde's Corner. Email: captflash@astound.net Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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