tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post999263023585816313..comments2023-10-30T02:03:56.081+13:00Comments on Capitalism Bad; Tree Pretty: Already forgottenMaiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212711843307060731noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-58591675190437051462007-05-27T22:03:00.000+12:002007-05-27T22:03:00.000+12:00Maia, you didn't comment on the sexism of sending ...Maia, you didn't comment on the sexism of sending ONLY MEN to die in these wars. I think both genders could gain from equality, not just women.Luke Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929408708481681826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-21890674327482054682007-04-29T20:37:00.000+12:002007-04-29T20:37:00.000+12:00I guess I benefited from WW2. If Britain had lost ...I guess I benefited from WW2. If Britain had lost there's a good chance my parents would have been killed in Nazi slave labour camps and (apart from anything else) I wouldn't be around today.<BR/><BR/>I posted elsewhere that if we stay out of major war indefinitely there will come a time when NZ involvement in 20th century wars is as distant a memeory as the Napoleonic wars are today. At that point we will no longer have remembrance ceremonies which will not be a bad thing.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17092996828683002246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-43303996257352111352007-04-27T10:37:00.000+12:002007-04-27T10:37:00.000+12:00I like this quote by Camus.I should like to be abl...I like this quote by Camus.<BR/><BR/>I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-55841116463291557202007-04-26T20:33:00.000+12:002007-04-26T20:33:00.000+12:00Every new zealander benefited from world war 2. Un...Every new zealander benefited from world war 2. Unless you of course would prefer to be living under either the peace loving nazi or imperialistc japanese regimes. They were wars in self defence - maybe you could say something about why we were wrong not to appease those two countries and let them conquer us>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-73338198437021113252007-04-26T18:06:00.000+12:002007-04-26T18:06:00.000+12:00War does help "define the nationl character", it's...War does help "define the nationl character", it's just that we don't commemmorate the wars that did... the land wars. I mean, look at Australia, they are adamantly proud of Invasion Day to the point where it's a national holiday. Now *that* is celebrating the things that made the nation what it is.Mozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07450274402965786918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-61009921602767614392007-04-26T13:14:00.000+12:002007-04-26T13:14:00.000+12:00I get the impression that the growing attendance a...I get the impression that the growing attendance at ANZAC Dawn parades is less about remembering the cost of war and more about nationalistic jingoism.<BR/><BR/>The media jumps up and down with its 'war helped define the national character' and so on and people buy into it. I think its a bit offensive that a day which should be one of commemoration is slowly being turned into one of celebration.<BR/><BR/>But then I don't buy that the wars were particularly defining of the national character.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-48975798351624220232007-04-26T10:24:00.000+12:002007-04-26T10:24:00.000+12:00If you were to look at the politics of the type of...If you were to look at the politics of the type of people who protest at or against ANZAC day one would find that they whold feel quite comfortable with the type of society that was nazi Germany, fascist Itialy, communist Russia or any other totaliarian regieme either left wing of right wing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-33909801252965838512007-04-26T00:30:00.000+12:002007-04-26T00:30:00.000+12:00Or we could at least acknowledge that, in respecti...Or we could at least acknowledge that, in respective of World War 2, New Zealand had a choice of fighting Japanese and German imperialism, or siding (or ignoring) two of the most aggressively expansionist murderous regimes of the 20th century.<BR/><BR/>Remembering also that NZ and the allies appeased Germany and Japan time and time again. Germany had expanded enormously in central Europe, executing en masse "inferior peoples" before invading Poland and the allies responded. Japan had Korea, China, south east Asia down to Singapore, before the allies responded.<BR/><BR/>The allies resisted war up until the latest moment, because of the experience of (then) the Great War. Had those who sacrificed (all, fighting and non fighting) between 1939 and 1945 not done so, you might be growing up under the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere under the Empire of Japan.<BR/><BR/>THAT is one reason some of us are grateful.<BR/><BR/>You might ask Koreans, including Korean women of that generation what NOT fighting that cost them.Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.com