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> Wonder what both Churchill and FDR really felt when Pearl Harbor happened??
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I still think it is an open question how much they *knew*.
But even putting the best possible face on it, the US was
pursuing a policy of strangling Japan by cutting off Japan's
oil supplies. I guess it takes a genius to figure out
that they might not just roll over and croak.
But in all these situations, Americans get all
emotional, instead of ruthlessly scrutinizing
their/our own behavior. We blame the Japs for
attacking Pearl Harbor, instead of blaming
ourselves for letting them pull it off.
And, anyway, Pearl Harbor was 60 years ago.
It's time we stopped being surprised when
our enemies attack us in ways that
have some chance of doing some damage.
"Why don't they stand up and fight like men?"
Well, maybe they would if we would equip them with
F-14s and Predator drones and stand-off cruise missiles
and Aegis radar and so forth and train them to use it.
So far thay have not been able to accomplish
*all* of this all by themselves.
America has a bottom line mentality. It doesn't
take a CPA to figure out the ROI for Al Quaeda
on "911": At most they invested maybe US$500,000.
They did at least US$40,000,000,000 damage to us.
At that ratio it should be obvious that the
United States is too poor to defend itself.
\brad mccormick
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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