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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary  I never said we could attain superpower status, but that it would jump start our economy. And if you don't think our prosperity was almost totally due to the destruction wtought on the rest of the world by the two biggest wars, and instead due to a relatively small impact of refrigerators and T.V.s, the production and consumption of which were only made possible in the industrial prosperity directly caused by the aftermath of the wars, consult a historian. And I never said anything about the Vietnam era or even power in general, just that, if you want a good industrial economy, it helps to have all the competition taken out. |
Sure, if we got away with nuking England, China, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Italy, Russia, and any other country that is productive then I guess we would have the best economy, relative to them. We could even call that "cold logic". But also totally crazy and un-American like. Congress would never agree with such a silly plot.
I know all about those historian perspectives that war caused us to get more productive in order to make tanks, weapons, planes, jeeps, and stuff like that. And some of the ideas used for military purposes were then transferred for peaceful pruposes. Missles ended up as our space program and now we have a bunch of communicational satellites orbiting earth. The depression era of the 1930s was partly rescued by the need to prepare for war. Likewise the economy of Germany got better when Hitler created his war efforts (until they finally lost because they did not have any oil wells to fuel their vehicles). But to continue to base our economy on war efforts is unwise and also "not nice". We got more pride in ourself then to do that. Take the current trillion spent on the war in Irag and then check to see if that boosted our economy and generated more jobs here at home. Did you see the steal industry booming again? No you did not see that. Your idea is no longer workable and is now obsolete.