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Mahross- What I mean in Warlike; Is that more or less the most violent country. The U.S. for example is supposed to be the Peacekeeper yes? I don't think so.
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Is suppossed to, yes. And it is. The US is a belicist nation, indeed, but not militarist, which is very different. The civilians are the ones who tell the armed forces what to do, where and when. Not the other way around.
War is an option and a mean used by the US government in its foreign policy, not surprisingly, because the US is a super-power and behaves as such. But war is not the dominant factor of the US international behaviour. The US has much deeper (and far more effective) economic and cultural influence world-wide, rather than military, and that is what
Pax Americana means.
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Fried-I sulute you and your generation since they know more than I do. And I enjoy learning about the history of what's going on. You guys really are the best here. Thanks...
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My generation?! I was born in the lousy 80s… I think you mean to salute the veterans and the 1920s and 1930s generation, don't you?
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Enrich-That symbol there. The Swatstica (if that's how you spell it). Some movie I saw a while back. The symbol was claimed to have come from India or something along those lines. I can understand that that whole thing makes you feel uneasy. Hey. You and me both brother. You and me both.
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The Swastika is a symbol from Nordic-Germanic mithology which represents FORCE. It was used all through the late XIX Century by pan-Germanist, xenophobe and extreme-right groups in Germany, Austria and other countries.
The Hindu Swastika, however, is a budhist religious symbol which dates from thousands of years ago, and it means 'thousand', or 'plenty', '[spiritual] abundance'.
Both symbols, however, are different, because the 'arms' of the cross are inverted:
The Hindu symbol, which is religious and has nothing to do with fascism or WWII:
The Nordic-Germanic symbol, the Nazi one, is inverted:
