PREFACE

THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MUST take the path less traveled and reverse the direction taken in the war-torn twentieth century, the bloodiest in history. When the First World War, where ten million soldiers were killed, evolved into the Second World War, where fifty million people were killed, we experienced the concept of total war. A large percentage of the fifty million were civilians (women and children) killed by British and American aircraft which dropped bombs on nonmilitary targets in order to demoralize the enemy.

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A CENTURY OF WAR

THE MOST ACCURATE DESCRIPTION of the twentieth century is “The War and Welfare Century.” This century was the bloodiest in all history. More than 170 million people were killed by governments with ten million being killed in World War I and fifty million killed in World War II. In regard to the fifty million killed in World War II, it is significant that nearly 70 percent were innocent civilians, mainly as a result of the bombing of cities by Great Britain and America.

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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE FIRST SHOT

The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.1

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LINCOLN AND ROOSEVELT: AMERICAN CAESARS

IT IS INTERESTING TO compare Lincoln and his treachery in causing the Southern “enemy” to fire the first shot at Fort Sumter, resulting in the Civil War, with Roosevelt’s similar manipulation causing the attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II.

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APPENDIX

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Alperovitz, Gar. 1995. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House.

Bacque, James. 1997. Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupations, 1944–1950. London: Little Brown.

Barnes, Harry Elmer. [1926] 1980. Revisionism: A Key to Peace and Other Essays. San Francisco: Cato Institute.

——. [1926] 1970. Genesis of The World War: An Introduction to the Problem of Guilt. New York: Howard Fertig.