Interesting, but not convincing.

Do you really think that "...people sometimes lose track of the fact that WW2 was in fact our first nuclear war."?

The younger generations may be that ignorant, but I doubt anyone over 30 would fail to appreciate that WWII was not only the "first" but also the "only" time nuclear weapons have been used in anger. Most of us hope that it is also the "last" time.

I hasten to add that many younger people are no doubt aware that it was the first, last and only time, too.

The rest of your post contains a lot of scare-mongering with scant justification or rationale to support the conclusions to which you have leaped.

You wrote: "In matters of self-defense, what's the point of not acting like a super-power? There can be only one, and that's to allow Americans to die."

Nowhere is it inscribed in granite how super-powers must act, nor what a super-power really is, for that matter, let alone what actions will or will not "allow" Americans to die.

You also wrote: "This is not the world of 60 years ago, and it's taken 60 years to really come to terms with that."

You don't say?

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