Hitler was a significant threat to the world in WWII. It was the last war that was primarily driven to preserve our freedom. While there were corrupt reasons involved (there always is in all wars), such as Bush's connections to German banks, a bad outcome and we would all be speaking German now in the continental US. Since then, Eisenhower has warned in his "cross of iron" speech that a "military industrial complex" was rising. We've conveniently forgotten and now we live with this reality.

I'm old enough to have seen the changes in the USA over the last several decades. I don't need to read about it in the history books because I've lived it. The zeitgeist of the times is significantly different now from what it was when I was a child.