Robert Parry: US Lost Its Way from Omaha Beach

[marmar]

from Consortium News:



US Lost Its Way from Omaha Beach
August 10, 2011

Exclusive: Visiting Omaha Beach and the nearby American cemetery of World War II dead recalls a moment in time when the United States sacrificed to stop a global epidemic of madness. But Robert Parry discovered that those memories also underscore how the United States has since lost its way.

By Robert Parry


My pilgrimage to the World War II beaches of Normandy was a reminder to me of what the United States meant to the world not that long ago – and the troubling contrast with today.

Before heading to Omaha Beach – the iconic heart of D-Day heroism – I spent several hours at Caen’s World War II museum where you literally descend down an inclined walkway into the murderous madness that engulfed Europe in the 1930s.

It is still hard to imagine that a racist fanatic like Adolf Hitler could gain control of Germany, then one of the world’s most advanced civilizations, and that he could win over enough Germans to undertake various forms of mechanized slaughter.

There was, of course, a long history in Europe of such butchery, from the Roman conquests more than two millennia ago, through the Christian religious wars of the middle of the last millennium to the wholesale killing of World War I. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/08/10/us-lost-its-way-from-omaha-beach/

[alsame]

1. Excellent piece. k&r

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, marmar.

[seafan]

3. Sometimes the grief and sadness are overwhelming.

Robert Parry feels it, along with so many of the rest of us.

[jwirr]

4. No America lost its way the day raygun took office and so far as I

can see there has not been a president or congress who has tried to find the old path. Perry sure won't.