Posted on 01/23/2016 6:17:45 AM PST by Kaslin
And gave a vapid, directionless address which asked for nothing.
and the UN
Oh yes, I remember Bush going to the UN, hat in hand, begging for some meaningless "resolution". He should have been impeached right then and there.
When was the last time Japan engaged in military adventurism?
Excellent point
1945, after wave upon wave of catastrophic loss, including the sinking of their main battle fleet, the incineration of their cities by conventional weapons, the deaths of millions of their soldiers, sailors, and pilots, and the imposition of starvation by blockade.
You do that to Arabia and Pakistan, and then, if they don't surrender to our occupation nuke 'em, yes, I agree that would work.
The comprehensive and total defeat and subjugation of the Japanese nation involved more - much, much more - that the two atomic bombs.
Here's the point. If the loss of four carriers at Midway, MacArthur's Island Hopping campaign, Curtis LeMay's firebombing of most of Japan's civilian infrastructure, the great Marianas Turkey Shoot, and all the rest, hadn't induced Imperial High command to surrender...
Just maybe, it was the nukes.
It took Hirohito personally broadcasting his message to get the military high command to give up.
So I conclude, nukes are powerful.
Note, too. How peaceful do you think a military occupation of Japan would've been, in the absence of nukes?
You know, to learn lessons about military occupation of any erstwhile caliphate -- as though the lessons of Iraq and Syria aren't clear enough.
Incidentally, if you think the rest of the world hates the US now? Imagine if we tried to impose starvation by blockade on the Middle East.
Who would enforce an embargo on the sale of oil by Saudi Arabia, for instance?
You forgot Indonesia.
I think the Subud influence in Indonesia might make it possible to vassalize them.
I agree with your modest proposal. You know... in this day and age with cell phones, go pro cameras and youtube..... a person can search you tube for “Syria war” and watch hours and hours of footage from there. To begin with, the place already looks like London did after Germany bombed it. The devastation of some of those cities is MUCH worse than I initially realized.
Cynic in me says Homs and Ramadi must be atop where the pipeline goes. Homs is shocking.
I think so too. I think they are trying to own the land where the pipe, or transport trucks move the oil out. It’s cloaked in a religious war, but it’s about the money.
And with oil cratering, the whole project is stalled and Isis has to layoff!
Homs is practically the smoking heap of rubble mentioned in the bible.
Yes. I always read those prophecies and equated it with nuclear war. They are being fulfilled with convential warefare. Even some of the suburbs of Damascus are starting to see it. Honestly, I’m not sure I want boots on the ground there. I don’t want our guys all shot up over that. We have to find a way to bankrupt ISIS, and secure our borders and let it be.
This is a religious civil war.
Who’s side are we on?
Are we going to fight for Sunni Islam or Shia Islam to take the upper hand in a particular geographic reason?
Why? They will still be fighting each other as they have been for 1400 years and the religious war will flare up again either in Syria or somewhere else.
I fail to see why we need to support one faction of Islam or another faction of Islam.
I don't think you are the only one does.
I don’t want a single American troop in any ME sand unless he wants to assist, either.
The declaration can’t happen until the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in our government is eliminated.
And that is factual
The war in Syria does have elements of the Shia-Sunni struggle present, but the real war is Islam against everyone else on Earth.
From the JQ Adams quote above
and he (Mad Mo) declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
It is Muslims attacking Muslims .. same as it ever was.
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