{"id":3489,"date":"2020-10-14T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2020-10-14T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:02:00","slug":"zariah-post-for-10-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/10\/14\/zariah-post-for-10-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Zariah Post for 10\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading this chapter, I can\u2019t help but think how different the world we live in would be if governments operated under moral code rather than political and economic agendas. I don\u2019t only mean the United States, but every other country who seems to put their imperialist goals above basic ethics. In this reading, Zinn makes connections between President Roosevelt and President Lincoln during their terms. As we discussed before, Lincoln was not too concerned with slavery from a moral standpoint. He mainly used that as a way to follow through with his own agenda. Then there is Roosevelt. He also didn\u2019t have much concern for the Jewish people from a moral perspective because if he did, when the Nazis first started killing the Jewish people, he would\u2019ve intervened then. The fact that they both used these reasons as justifications for getting involved or to defend their point, shows that they understand that morals do matter in politics, but only when they want them to. They only used the basis of the opposing actions as not being right when they ran out of other options, but by this point, it is too late.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another very big problem that Zinn talks about is the dropping of the atomic bombs. What I learned from this chapter that I didn\u2019t know before, was that the United States government knew that the Japanese were going to surrender but they still chose to drop the bombs anyway. Not only did they drop one, but after seeing the aftermath of the first one, they went ahead with the second. I will say it is a strong maybe the first one can be justified, but there is no reasonable defense for the second one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hitler’s rise to power had a lot to do with him capitalizing on the weak economy of Germany and using that for his gain. I see a parallel to the United States government in later years. During the Cold War, the Truman administration presented the Soviet Union as an immediate threat to Americans. There were drills and propaganda during this time that put Americans in a state of constant fear because they did not know what could happen. Although the types of vulnerabilities were different, how different is it from Hitler who also used the vulnerability of the people for political gain? I\u2019m not trying to say that Truman was turning into Hitler and that genocide was going to happen. However, the government did decide to evacuate and place Japanese into internment camps, another unethical choice on the U.S. that goes ignored. There are so many similarities between America and other countries, but for some reason, we only focus on the minuscule differences and not on the obvious problems that are there. How do the U.S. and its people continue to distance themselves from the wrongful actions of other countries when our actions have proved that we may not be all that better? Something to think about is a point that Zinn makes about these wrongful actions, \u201cWas it a \u201cmistake\u201d-or was it an action to be expected\u2026\u201d (416)<\/span><\/p>\n

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After reading this chapter, I can\u2019t help but think how different the world we live in would be if governments operated under moral code rather…<\/p>\n

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