Posted on 12/07/2010 7:32:38 AM PST by fruser1
On the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks, Flags of Our Fathers author James Bradley explains how the U.S. under Teddy Roosevelt first meddled in Asian affairs—and why we’re playing a dangerous game in doing so again.
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This is copied in Yahoo news too.
“The Real Lesson of Pearl Harbor” don’t EVER elect “Progressives(whether they be Rep or Dem)” to any public office.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
All you need to read for judgment - major asshat!
FDR went to War against Germany and Italy - did they attack the USA? Were they threatening us with WMD?
“China presents no military threat to the U.S.”
Such stupidity can come only from someone who has absolutely no education whatsover.
Oh, forgot....journalist....
No it was aircraft from the USS Enterprise and USS Lexington. Just last night I saw the film of Dauntless divebombers peeling over on their dive and the USS Arizona blowing up....photo proof that it was a US attack by that Devil F D Roooosvelt and not the innocent Japanese.
Pearl Harbor truther bump.
Germany and Italy declared war on us before we declared war on them.
If you fart around for a decade, never naming the enemy or taking the war to his homeland, you would be better off never to have gone to war in the first place.
Ask the Russians.
True, but FDR had given the US Navy the order to aggressively attack German U-boats in the Western & Mid-Atlantic so that the overstretched Royal Navy escorts only had to cover half the convoy routes. That was an undeclared naval war. Probably illegal. And guaranteed to draw the US into the European war had not Pearl Harbor happened and Hitler saved him the trouble.
Germans?
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Germans?”
Whoopi goldberg says the Japenese never bombed us at Pearl Harbor.
Wonder who she thinks did that bombing?
Indeed, with the world's largest economy and most potent military, the US is the preferred ally of almost every nation and the guarantor of peace and freedom for every developed nation. Even when we are criticized, it is because we are essential to the world's peace and orderly progress.
Contrary to common belief, we are likely to remain the world's only superpower for decades to come. China will soon suffer economic, demographic, and political dislocations that will dramatically limit her aspirations. Even the Muslim insurgency is likely to begin to fade within five to ten years as Islam adapts to modernity. Iran is already ripe for a pro-Western, pro-US revolution.
Of course, with the wrong national leadership and the wrong decisions, we could suffer a precipitous fall. But who would truly wish that except our enemies?
The real lesson of Pearl Harbor is to never let your guard down, especially when your pulling raw materials from other countries.
Here’s a lesson the Japs learned.... DONT FLY PLANES INTO OUR SH!T. Others didnt seem to learn from this did they....
Funny how the isolationists said the same about Germany and Japan.
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