Man, only eight years after the end of WWII and we were making cartoons about Hitler for kids! A lot of kids watching that cartoon in 1953 would have lost fathers and brothers fighting Hitler. Any cartoons for kids about Osama bin Laden? I don't think so. Any cartoons about the Japanese in WWII? I think so. I can't recall one in specific but I think so.
It shows amazing confidence and resilience to be able to make a cartoon for kids about Hitler only eight years after the end of the war. Americans do not have that confidence fourteen years after 9/11. Nor four years after the assassination of OBL. We have not been resilient. We are tentative, defensive, unsure. The war with Hitler ended in unconditional surrender. The war with Islam did not end with OBL's killing, nor with the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. It continues to this day. Americans are unsure even who this current war is with, even if it's a war. It is not with Islam according to everybody who counts. Psychologically it's as if World War II continued even after Hitler committed suicide and Germany was overrun.
Tentative, defensive, unsure. Quite a difference from the confidence, resilience and offense-mindedness of the generation of World War II and immediately thereafter. 1953, amazing. The soul of America was changed by 9/11. It was not changed by World War II. That is amazing.
It shows amazing confidence and resilience to be able to make a cartoon for kids about Hitler only eight years after the end of the war. Americans do not have that confidence fourteen years after 9/11. Nor four years after the assassination of OBL. We have not been resilient. We are tentative, defensive, unsure. The war with Hitler ended in unconditional surrender. The war with Islam did not end with OBL's killing, nor with the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. It continues to this day. Americans are unsure even who this current war is with, even if it's a war. It is not with Islam according to everybody who counts. Psychologically it's as if World War II continued even after Hitler committed suicide and Germany was overrun.
Tentative, defensive, unsure. Quite a difference from the confidence, resilience and offense-mindedness of the generation of World War II and immediately thereafter. 1953, amazing. The soul of America was changed by 9/11. It was not changed by World War II. That is amazing.
