美利坚独步天下

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• The rudiments of Empire here, Are plastic yet and warm: The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form. Expulsion of the European Powers Sorting out competing European claims to land that would come to constitute the United States began later but proceeded more rapidly than the campaigns against the Native Americans. Indigenous peoples had the misfortune of having nowhere to get permanently out of harm’s way, so they either resisted or fell back in hopes of mounting a successful resistance another day. The European powers had the option of shifting to other points for colonial settlement and conquest after encountering so pugnacious, increasingly powerful, and rapidly multiplying a people as they faced in the United States. From the very inception of their independence, the citizens of... (查看原文)

  El Guaje 2014-01-01 19:28:33

• Nowhere in the U.S. rescue of Europe was flexibility more in evidence than in the U.S. approach to Germany. The initial U.S. postwar plan, formulated by Henry Morgenthau, was starkly punitive. Its main preoccupation was to weaken Germany so that it could not plunge Europe into war for a third time in the twentieth century. Thus Germany was to be territorially dismembered, and the economy was to be “pastoralized”—reduced to an agricultural base. Industry was to be destroyed, with plants exported as reparations to injured neighbors. Not content with pushing for the execution of Nazi leaders at once(without trial), Morgenthau wanted ordinary Germans punished for their nation’s crimes by forcing them to live on a subsistence diet. President Roosevelt approved Morgenthau’s plan out of a shared ... (查看原文)

  El Guaje 2014-03-06 22:03:35

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