From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 16:09:26 MDT
--- Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote:
>
> >From: "Technotranscendence" <neptune@mars.superlink.net>>
> >Unless you fought in either the War of Independence or the War of
> >1812, you claim is exaggerated. I don't recall the last time US
> >territory was invaded in the last fifty years... (I was going to
> >write 150, but Japanese Imperial Forces took the American
> >territory of the Phillipines. Even this only happened after a long
> >period of provocation from the Roosevelt Administration. See
> >Thomas Fleming's _The New Dealers' War_ and Robert B. Stinnett's
> >_Day of Deceit_. This does not absolve the Japanese government of
> >that time for its crimes, though it shows it was a dance between
> >two partners with one heavily choreographing the other.)
>
> You don't wait for things to reach your shores if you're smart.
Nor is he correct, Brian. I suppose the attack on Pearl Harbor was
nothing but a 'minor misunderstanding' and the months long Japanese
occupation of a couple of Alaskan Islands, the attempted invasion of
Midway Island, to be used as a staging area for an invasion of Hawaii
(according to Yamomoto's own plan) was 'not an invasion' only because
a) we are somehow wrong to own Alaska, and b) we had the misfortune to
have successfully turned back the Midway invasion force.
Furthermore, his characterization of Roosevelt as 'provoking' Japan is
rather ludicrous. I suppose that our economic sanctions against China
after Tianenmen Square was a 'provocation' by his definition. The US
imposed economic sanctions against Japan specifically because it was
committing a holocaust in China in its attempt to establish it's
"Coprosperity Sphere". I suppose events like The Rape of Nangking, the
Rape of Intramuros, among others, are non-events on Dan's mental radar.
We who have served know that the gratitude of such as Dan is really not
worth asking for. Many of us have been 'on the line' in one way or the
other, many in events that never saw the light of day or front page of
a newspaper. We know what we've done and are self satisfied. The lies
and bullshit of ignoramuses like Dan, who have absolutely no idea what
they are talking about and seem to only enjoy hearing themselves talk,
have no impact on our service and what we know to be true.
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