which said this was the first anniversary of 'the worst day in America's history'. I quickly came up with a few alternative candidates. What do the panel think?
I think it was the death of the myth of American difference. The idea that, as a country set up against tyranny of an empire, America would not be an empire itself. Of course, arguably with the Monroe doctrine and the Phillippines previously, this had disapperted many years before, but the American public could deny this to themselves until Cambodia.
Well, I think it's the day you'd least like to have happened in that country's history.
So - as a non-German - I'd say the worst day in German history was 20th Jan 1942, when a group of people sat around a table and planned how to kill millions of civilians, for example.
Nearly half of the participants effectively got away with it, which is not exactly the greatest day for the British, US, French and Russians.
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Date: 2002-09-11 04:31 am (UTC)It's not clear, for example, that bombing Cambodia was bad for American interests...
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Date: 2002-09-11 07:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-09-11 01:00 pm (UTC)So - as a non-German - I'd say the worst day in German history was 20th Jan 1942, when a group of people sat around a table and planned how to kill millions of civilians, for example.
Nearly half of the participants effectively got away with it, which is not exactly the greatest day for the British, US, French and Russians.