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Sometimes stupid loses
"Bill Graham" wrote in message news Neil Harrington wrote: "Bill Graham" wrote in message ... J. Clarke wrote: In article 2011042919334216807-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, says... On 2011-04-29 19:04:06 -0700, "Bill Graham" said: Le Snip It wasn't trhe US Army that kept the Japanese from invading us during WW-II. It was their knowledge that there were over 100 million guns in the hands of the American citizens. They knew that they wouldn't have the chance of a snowball in hell of getting anywhere. Let me see if I can appropriately phrase my response to that bizarre assertion; Huh!!?? WTF?? You need to read a little of the geo-politics of the Pacific rim and Asia, with regard to Japan in the 1930's and early 1940's before Pearl Harbor. A Japanese invasion of North America was not thwarted by musket bearing minutemen. The Japanese had no intention of an invasion of North America. They wanted the US out of the Asian arena. He needs to learn something about logistics too. The IJN didn't have the means to invade the US without first taking Hawaii and it's questionable whether they had such means even if they did take Hawaii. Why do you suppose they attacked Hawaii and sank 1/3 of our Pacific fleet is they didn't intend to eventually take over the United States. They did that only because Roosevelt had left them little choice but to make war on us, and that was exactly FDR's intention. He desperately wanted to get the U.S. into the war, but 80% of the American people wanted no part of any war in either theater. Provoking the Japanese (or Germans) into attacking us was his only chance of getting us into the war; finally, on Dec. 7, 1941, Roosevelt was successful and the rest, as they say, is history. The Japanese had no North American ambitions. Bill, that notion is just silly. Do you think they thought we would just surrender to them out of hand? I don't think so. they waged war on us for the usual reasons. They wanted, "lebensraum" just as did Adolf. They already had all the "lebensraum" they needed and then some, in Manchukuo (Manchuria) and obviously their excursions into China and elsewhere in southeast Asia had been completely successful. The last thing they needed or wanted was to take on the world's greatest industrial power. And you think sinking 1/3 of our Pacific fleet at Pearl wasn't taking on the world's greatest industrial power? If it wasn't, then what exactly was it? Of course it was. I said it was the last thing they wanted, not that they didn't do it. Eventually FDR forced them to attack us. |
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