I find Langston Hughes’ America a great poem about this exact issue, and that’s the right context for the discussion.
As for the the true causes of war, I think it’s you who have simplified things with your teary-eyed flag waving. Sure, things are complex, but mythology and propaganda should not be swallowed whole.
He is an excellent poet, and “And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!” is exactly that realization of the ideals this country was founded on.
It’s not “teary eyed flag-waving” to celebrate the death of authoritarianism, the birth of modern democracy, and the deeply idealistic legacy of the American Revolution, ideals all people of the world, not just Americans, should fight for.
I find Langston Hughes’ America a great poem about this exact issue, and that’s the right context for the discussion.
As for the the true causes of war, I think it’s you who have simplified things with your teary-eyed flag waving. Sure, things are complex, but mythology and propaganda should not be swallowed whole.
He is an excellent poet, and “And yet I swear this oath— America will be!” is exactly that realization of the ideals this country was founded on.
It’s not “teary eyed flag-waving” to celebrate the death of authoritarianism, the birth of modern democracy, and the deeply idealistic legacy of the American Revolution, ideals all people of the world, not just Americans, should fight for.