Worshipping the Myths of World War II: America's Dedication to War - Historical Analysis & Modern Reflections | Perfect for History Buffs & Military Enthusiasts" （注：原标题已为英文，故未翻译。优化后增加了关键词密度，如"Historical Analysis"和"Modern Reflections"，并添加了使用场景"Perfect for History Buffs & Military Enthusiasts"以提升SEO和用户吸引力。）

I view this book as informative, of essential importance, and even inspiring. After many years of reading, I, too, have come to believe that the reason the United States so often attempts a military solution to a foreign difficulty is that our comparatively easy victory in the Second World War caused us to draw some false lessons. It was our victory in WWII along with victory in the 40 year-long armed stand-off with the Soviet Union that has led us to think of ourselves as the world's military policeman. We have reached the point where we have as much military spending as the rest of the world combined and where we can no longer afford vital social services and prepairs and modernization of our public infrastructure, in part due to our military spending.Our whole economy is so dependent upon military spending, our (false) fear of foreign enemies is so prevasive, and general militarism is now so deeply ingrained in our culture that many of us dispair of ever living to see change. My dispair was lightened by Edward W. Wood's comparison of the struggle against militarism in America with the centuries-long struggle against slavery in this country. The very fact that Wood, a wounded combat veteran of WWII, has developed such views over the years itself brings hope