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Welcome to Keith Knight. 
Don't tread on anyone in the 

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Libertarian Institute. 
This article from 1995 is titled

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On the Importance of Revisionism
for Our Time by Doctor Murian 

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Rothbard, an economics professor
from the University of Nevada, 

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Las Vegas. 
Revisionism, as applied to World

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War 2 and its origins, as also 
for previous wars, has the 

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general function of bringing 
historical truth to an America 

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and a world that had been 
drugged by wartime lies and 

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propaganda. 
This in itself is a virtue, but 

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some truths of history, of 
course, may be largely of 

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antiquarian interest with little
relevance to present day 

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concerns. 
This is not true of World War 2 

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revisionism, which has much 
critical significance for 

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today's world. 
Anytime you watch the Piers 

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Morgan Show, CNN, Fox News, any 
enemy of the US regime is 

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compared to the National 
Socialist, German Workers Party,

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any leader, Putin, Xi Jinping, 
Kim Jong Un, David Koresh, 

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Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden,
Moammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad

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is always compared to Hitler. 
So the reason this is important 

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is it's the analogy they 
constantly use to justify crimes

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in the present. 
Well, we're going after Hitler 

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just like we previously did. 
What can be wrong with going 

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after Hitler? 
The least of the lessons that 

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revisionism can teach has 
already been thoroughly learned,

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that Japan and Germany are not 
uniquely aggressor nations 

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doomed from birth to menace the 
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The larger lessons have 
unfortunately, yet to be 

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learned. the United States is 
again being subjected to that 

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complex of fear and vaunting in 
the brilliant phrase of Garrett 

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Garrett, which drove us and the 
Western world into two other 

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disastrous wars in our century. 
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is being subjected to nearly 
unanimous barrage of war 

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propaganda and war hysteria so 
that only the most searching and

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rational can keep their heads. 
Once again we find there has 

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emerged upon the scene and enemy
a bad guy with the same old bad 

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guy characteristics that we have
heard of before. 

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A diabolic monolithic enemy 
which generations ago when some 

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sacred texts decided for some 
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that it was out to conquer the 
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This was the claim for the 
Spanish during the Spanish 

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American War. 
This was the claim that Kaiser 

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Wilhelm was going to take over 
the world, that Adolf Hitler was

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going to take over the world. 
Iran, Brooke just said that the 

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Iranian mullahs are trying to 
take over the world. 

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Now notice that if you watch 
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play out when it's less 
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Here is President Trump talking 
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Teen missiles, we shot at us the
other day and they were very 

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nice. 
They gave us warning. 

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They said we're going to shoot 
them. 

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Is 1:00 OK? 
It is fine. 

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And everybody was emptied off 
the base so they couldn't get 

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hurt except for the Gunners. 
They call them the Gunners. 

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And out of 14 high end missiles 
that were shot at the base in 

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Qatar, all 14, as you know, were
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So here we have the evil, 
diabolical Iranian regime who? 

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They're Twelvers and that's a 
reference to Islam. 

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They just want the world to 
burn. 

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They want to rule over the 
ashes. 

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These people love death. 
They just want global 

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destruction. 
They want to take us down. 

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They want to nuke us. 
They want us all dead and just 

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enslaved. 
Also, when they fired 14 

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missiles at us, they called us 
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any casualties. 
The the propaganda is just so 

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pathetic and it has to explain 
why the state wants to control 

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compulsory education. 
I mean you, you have to get a 

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population completely stupid 
before selling him such 

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nonsense, the article goes on. 
Since then, the enemy, darkly, 

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secretly, diabolically, has 
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conquer the world, building up a
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military machine, and also 
constructing a mighty, 

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international and subversive 5th
column which functions as an 

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army of mere puppets, agents of 
the enemy's central 

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headquarters, ready to commit 
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other act of undermining other 
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The enemy then is monolithic, 
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the top by a few masters, and is
dominated always by the single 

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purpose of world conquest. 
The model to keep in mind is 

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Doctor Fu Manchu here trotted 
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bogeyman. 
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conspiracy theorists when the 
establishment, as you could call

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it, is always saying, well, the 
elites are conspiring against 

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us, the whites are conspiring 
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Men have built up a patriarchy 
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Islam's going to take over the 
world. 

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The Germans tried to take over 
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The Japanese just wouldn't 
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They wanted to take over the 
world, so we had to nuke them 

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twice. 
Basically everyone in Iran wants

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everyone in Israel dead. 
They don't really have lives 

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where they have jobs and 
families and worry about other 

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things. 
They're just obsessed with 

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taking over the world. 
You see this clearly with Andrew

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Roberts and Niall Ferguson who 
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to take over the world twice as 
the British Empire ruled over 

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460 million people and 
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of planet Earth. 
Watch out for the Germans. 

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The enemy then says the war 
propaganda is guided by but one 

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purpose, conquest of the world. 
He never suffers from such human

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emotions as fear. 
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believe that he is acting in 
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respect and the desire to save 
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before others. 
Neither does he possess such 

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human qualities as reason. 
This is why whenever the 

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corporate press shows you images
of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, 

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Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler, 
they'll show him talking in a 

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video with no audio and the 
commentator is speaking over it.

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So you watch it and you go, God,
he must be saying something 

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crazy about how he wants to kill
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Seldom will they say, you know, 
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and Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un. 
So we're going to go through 

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their speeches together, just as
if you had a person who died 

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under mysterious circumstances 
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You know, the spouse is most 
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So you would want to interview 
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You'd want to get their side of 
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Even if you think they're an 
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greedy, you still want to 
interview that person to get 

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their side of the story, to know
what incentives they face. 

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No, there is only one other 
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Superior force will compel him 
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All you have to do is look at 
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US regime have been. 
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the Bolshevik regime, with 
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committed many atrocities in 
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when the alliance was really set
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no problem inviting Nikita 
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Soviet Union, over to tour 
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Republican Dwight D Eisenhower 
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Nikita Khrushchev flew from 
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Famously, Khrushchev and Kennedy
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These people still face 
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with. 
Richard Nixon and Henry 

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They're friends with Mohammed 
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Not exactly a Jeffersonian 
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heard. 
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Menchu, he is also like the bad 
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will cower before the good guy 
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to the teeth, resolute of 
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Hence the complex of fear and 
vaunting, fear of the supposedly

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implacable and permanent 
plotting of the enemy, vaunting 

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of the enormous military might 
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throughout the world to contain,
rollback, etcetera, the enemy or

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to liberate the oppressed 
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Yeah, you know, in Kuwait they 
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population so they could be 
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King Al Jaber again, it There's 
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A democracy, much as Hillary 
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They don't exactly have 
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or Saudi Arabia. 
Any of those inconvenient 

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allies. 
Many people in Greater Israel 

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who don't have the right to 
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Not exactly a democracy either. 
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his March 31st elections of last
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Not exactly a democracy. 
Conscripting men to get their 

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limbs blown off. 
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a democracy in conscripting 
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their will is a far greater 
violation of human rights and 

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liberty then denying them the 
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years between two lying 
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Now, revisionism teaches us that
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then and even now about Hitler 
and about the Japanese, is a 

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tissue of fallacies from 
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Every plank in this nightmare 
evidence is either completely 

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untrue or not entirely the 
truth. 

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If people should learn this 
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Hitler's Germany, then they will
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searching questions about the 
current World War Three version 

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of the same myth. 
Nothing would stop the current 

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headlong flight to war faster or
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begin to reason about foreign 
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After a long orgy of emotion and
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President Harry Truman wrote his
memoirs 1946 to 1952. 

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The book is titled Years of 
Trial and Hope, Memoirs by Harry

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S Truman. 
This is the second volume. 

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The first volume only goes over 
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Here he is on page 399 
explaining a discussion that he 

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had with Douglas MacArthur. 
He Douglas MacArthur, describe 

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the difference between the 
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Westerners and Orientals in the 
issues that were faced between 

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the Philippines and the Koreans 
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Here's what MacArthur was saying
about why we had to fight these 

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people. 
We hate to die, only face danger

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out of a sense of duty and 
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Whereas with Orientals, life 
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They die quietly, folding their 
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wings, relaxing and dying. 
Same exact nonsense that we hear

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about. 
The Iranians just love death. 

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Al Qaeda just loves death. 
North Korea just wants to watch 

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the world burn. 
Putin just wants to nuke us all.

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It's all completely fake, for 
the same myth is now based on 

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the same old fallacies, and this
is seen by the increasing use of

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the Cold Warriors have been 
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The continually repeated charge 
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the aggressor at Munich that fed
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Again, Fu Manchu or wild beast 
comparison. 

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And that caused the aggressor 
drunk with his conquest to 

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launch World War 2. 
Yeah, at the Munich Conference, 

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the agreement was the National 
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Sudetenland, 1/5 of 
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After the war, after 20 million 
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occupied all of Czechoslovakia, 
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So you have to look at the costs
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This Munich myth has been used 
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against any sort of rational 
negotiations with the communist 

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nations and the stigmatizing of 
even the most harmless search 

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for agreement as appeasement, 
such as the JCPOA, the Iranian 

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nuclear deal. 
One good thing Barack Obama ever

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did. 
It is for this reason that a JP 

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Taylors magnificent origins of 
the Second World War received 

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probably its most distorted and 
frenetic review in the pages of 

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National Review. 
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war that has revolutionary 
capabilities to really mobilize 

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the masses, get them all on the 
same page, drastically grow the 

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power of the state that allows 
the state to get away with 

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things when the population feels
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otherwise would not be able to 
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And basically all the wars are 
based on lies in order to get 

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someone to risk getting their 
head blown off, to risk sending 

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their children to die. 
You can't tell them a rational 

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cost benefit analysis of what we
think your child's life is worth

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this much. 
And if they die, we could have 

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this person ruling over this 
geographical area. 

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We could have Zelinsky ruling 
over the Don Bass instead of 

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Yanukovych or or Putin would 
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So that that's what we're really
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dies, we might have a chance for
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and Luhansk instead of Vladimir 
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It's like, well, doesn't seem 
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think of it. 
So they can never engage in an 

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honest cost benefit analysis. 
They just have to scare the hell

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out of you. 
It is about time that Americans 

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learn that bad guys, Nazis or 
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Communists, may not necessarily 
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to conquer the world. 
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strictly ideological and not 
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That bad guys may also fear the 
possibility of our use of our 

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enormous military might and 
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them. 
That both the bad guys and the 

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good guys may have common 
interests which make negotiation

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possible, EG that neither wants 
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weapons. 
That no organization is a 

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monolith, and that agents, 
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are often simply ideological 
allies who can and do split with

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their supposed masters. 
And that finally, we may learn 

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the most profound lesson of all,
that the domestic policy of a 

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government is often no index 
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We are still, in the last 
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delusion of Woodrow Wilson that 
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never embark on war, and that 
dictatorships are always prone 

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to engage in war, much as we may
and do aboard the domestic 

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programs of most dictators and 
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Socialists and Communists. 
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to their foreign policies. 
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been passive and static in 
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democracies have led in 
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Revisionism may once and for all
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Wilsonian myth. 
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difference between the capacity 
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dictatorship to wage war. 
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much more widely in deceptive 
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persuade the public, whereas 
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this. 
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when the state has the right to 
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they have the right to print 
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bank, when they have the right 
to conscript, when they have a 

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legal double standard that 
allows them to murder people and

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get away with it, you know, 
they're not being held as on 

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trial as any domestic citizen 
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thing. 
And they also control compulsive

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education, compulsory education 
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democracies. 
So all of those things make wars

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far more likely than they 
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Just imagine if Barack Obama had
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through voluntary exchanges and 
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sell it, use the proceeds to 
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I think he might come up with 
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least evil of all possibilities 
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put really any effort. 
Democracies that wage war need 

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to produce much more propaganda 
to whip up their citizens and at

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the same time to camouflage 
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intensely in hypocritical 
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Can't to fool for the voters. 
Let me re read that. 

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Democracies that wage war need 
to produce much more propaganda 

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to whip up their citizens and at
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their policies much more 
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morale. 
Can't to fool the voters. 

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The lack of need for this on the
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makes their policies seem 
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warlike, and this is one of the 
reasons why they have had a bad 

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press in this century. 
The task of revisionism has been

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to penetrate beneath these 
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to the stark realities 
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Realities would show certainly 
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Great Britain, France, the three
great democracies, to be worse 

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than any other three countries 
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aggressive war. 
Realization of this truth would 

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be of incalculable importance in
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Conservatives should not need to
be reminded of the flimsiness of

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the democratic myth. 
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concept of totalitarian 
democracy, of the frequent 

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propensity of the masses to 
tyrannize over minorities. 

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If conservatives can see this 
truth in domestic affairs, why 

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not in foreign? 
There are many other more 

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specific but also important 
lessons that revisionism can 

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teach us. 
The Cold War as well as World 

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Wars 1 and 2 has been launched 
by the Western democracies so as

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to meddle in the affairs of 
Eastern Europe. 

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The great power fact about 
Eastern Europe is that the 

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smaller nations there are fated 
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friendlier or otherwise, of 
Germany and or Russia. 

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In World War One, the US and 
Britain went to war partly to 

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help Russia expand into that 
part of Eastern Europe then 

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dominated by Austro, Hungary and
Germany. 

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This act of meddling on our 
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lives both West and East, and of
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statism and socialism at home. 
Led to a situation in which 

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Eastern Europe which brought the
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to keep Germany from dominating 
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As soon as World War 2 was over,
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increase in statism, militarism 
and socialism in the US, the US 

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and Britain felt they had to 
launch a Cold War to oust Russia

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from dominance over Eastern 
Europe, which it had obtained as

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a natural consequence of the 
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How much longer is the United 
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the American people, or even the
human race itself, for the sake 

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of imposing a solution of our 
liking on Eastern Europe? 

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And if we should wage a 
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and there should doubtfully be 
any Americans remaining, how 

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distinguishable from communism 
will the American system in 

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reality be? 
There have been two major facets

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to the Cold War trying to 
establish US and British 

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hegemony over Eastern Europe and
attempting to suppress 

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nationalist revolutions that 
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countries outside of the Western
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Here again, visionism of World 
War 2 has important lesson to 

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teach us today. 
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backed by the United States, 
went to war against Germany to 

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try to hobble an important 
commercial competitor which had 

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started late in the imperialist 
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This is very true. 
A conversation between Lord 

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Londonderry and Winston 
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to say May of 1935. 
This is in a book by Martin 

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Gilbert titled Churchill a Life 
where Londonderry says to 

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Churchill I should like to get 
out of your mind this terrible 

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obsession, this anti German 
obsession to its Churchill 

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response. 
You're wrong to think that I 

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have an anti German obsession. 
British policy for 400 years 

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which has allowed us to keep our
liberties and have our empire 

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meant that we go to war with the
strongest competitor in Europe. 

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We find the biggest bully, 
whether it's the Spanish, 

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whether it's the French Empire, 
whether it's the French 

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monarchy, we gather a number of 
countries big enough to face the

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bully. 
So, yeah, this has much more to 

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do about competition. 
In the case of the US 

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government, people like Robert 
O'Brien in the national Security

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advisor role, explicitly saying 
that. 

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Look, even John J Mearsheimer, 
one of my reluctant heroes, is 

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saying that while China's 
becoming a big competitor, they 

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never attacked us. 
In fact, the US actually 

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attacked China in 1999 by 
blowing up its embassy. 

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But yeah, anytime there's a 
competitor, the psychopaths will

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try to use violence as opposed 
to improving themselves. 

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Much like a boyfriend who gets 
extremely jealous that his woman

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left him, or it's just insecure 
that she might leave, He will 

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get extremely violent and would 
rather see her dead than with 

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another man. 
They would rather the elites 

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would rather exchange nuclear 
weapons and get millions of 

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people dead before they had 
someone else even be close to 

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competing with their high social
status. 

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Before World Wars one and Two, 
Britain and France tried to 

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preserve their imperialist 
domination as against the have 

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not nations Germany and Japan. 
That came in late to the 

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imperialist race. 
And now after World War 2, the 

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United States has assumed the 
imperialist skeptor from the 

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weakened hands of Britain and 
France. 

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Revisionism thus provides us 
with the insight that America 

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has now become the world 
colossal of imperialism, 

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propping up puppet and client 
states all over the undeveloped 

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areas of the world and fiercely 
attempting to suppress 

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nationalist revolutions that 
would take these countries out 

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of the American imperial orbit. 
As Garrett Garrett also said, we

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have crossed the boundary that 
lies between Republic and 

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empire. 
Communism. 

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Having allied itself with the 
immensely popular movements of 

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National Liberation against 
imperialism, the United States, 

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in the hypocritical name of 
freedom, is now engaged in the 

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logical conclusions of its Cold 
War policy, attempting to 

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exterminate a whole nation in 
Vietnam to make very sure that 

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they are rather dead than red, 
and to preserve American 

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imperial rule. 
I misspoke earlier. 

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I believe this item first 
appeared in the Journal of 

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Individualist Thought in 1966. 
I said 1995. 

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I stand corrected. 
I apologize. 

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All these lessons revisionism 
has to teach us. 

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For revisionism, and the final 
analysis is based on truth and 

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rationality. 
Truth and rationality are always

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the first victims in any war 
frenzy and they are therefore 

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once again an extremely rare 
commodity on today's market. 

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Revisionism brings to the 
artificial frenzy of daily 

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events and day-to-day propaganda
the cool but the last analysis, 

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glorious light of historical 
truth. 

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Such truth is almost desperately
needed in today's world. 

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Thank you for watching Keith 
Knight, Don't Tread on Anyone, 

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and the Libertarian Institute.