Nationalism, Is Power Hunger Tempered by Self Deception

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it saw Iraq as a security threat and went in to find and destroy any WMD that could be found in Iraq. No WMD were found in Iraq, but a crazy amount of people died in that was including citizens, the number was around 1 million citizen casualty and around US 5000 soldiers died in the Iraq war. Nationalism always breaks out into violence, the nationalism in this case was that US was devastated from the events that happened on 9/11/2001 and because of that they grew Nationalistic and said to themselves that they would never allow this to happen in our country again which eventually lead to a million civilian casualties.

The Korean War and The Vietnam War showed the ugly head of America which shows the world today that America only wants to spread its government system around the world, democracy, over communism which brings me to my second argument on how Nationalism only makes us look at our National Interest rather than a community as a whole . After World War II Korea was taken away from the Japanese and was divided into North and South Korea, the North was given to the USSR (known as Russia today) and the south to America. The North eventually lead to be a communist country and the south a Democratic country. After a little while the USSR and America pulled out and let North and South Korea their own countries but the North wanted the South to be reunited under the communist rule which broke out into a war which we know as the Korean War. When the USSR had gotten involved in the war America also got involved as it knew with the USSR involved the South would fall and it will become a communist country and the US simply couldn’t let this happen as they pride on its democratic system and felt that it is more superior than communism. The US was also able to get the United nations involved and eventually push through and they were getting closer to china and if china gets involved it may have resulted into another World War and nobody wanted that to happen so they came to an agreement and left korea and the Korean War ended in 1953 the same year Joseph Stalin Died. The Vietnam war is a similar story but this time the South asked for help in the Vietnam war but no response came until it was at the verge of collapsing and then and only then the US got involved and aided the Vietnamese in the south. The two case studies above show how nationalism only makes us more selfish and only think about our own National Interest and not about what is morally right.