Posted on 02/27/2023 11:05:13 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
You’re wasting your breath by trying to reason with her.
Can’t be done. Her venom is protected by the 1st Amendment and so is her toxicity.
Not a teacher, a school board member!
Yes, I forgot to say he worked for the VA back in the mid 80s.
I think it has been that way for a long time. Anyone who works for the Fed govt. in DC long term is a slug.
>>We don’t wage war like this anymore and it’s a primary reason we are eff’n losers.<<
We don’t have generals like McArthur and Nimitz any more. They would have been discharged for their political views and replaced with the types we have today.
You wake up smiling knowing that you have conquered it.
You mean like the blood and guts generals who wear masks and shields during Cold-19?
“Abrar Omeish, another confused female Jihadist Muslim who has her HUHA.”
Would you expect anything different from a radical muslim?
“Why are these POS scum allowed to immigrate here, and why in the hell are the locals voting in this filth?”
You can thank OVOMIT for this one. During his 8 LONG YEARS IN OFFICE, he let boat loads of muslims in and only a very few Christians in, only what he ABSOLUTELY HAD TO.
Like the blood and guts generals who wear more medals than Audie Murphy and sergeant York, combined.
OK. I’m sick of this womyn now.
SHIP HER BACK TO HER ORIGINAL COUNTRY-—NO RETURN
This muzzie bitch - yes, muzzie bitch! - has no idea when the Battle of Iwo Jima occurred, where it was fought, and what it was all about.
Sure, they were just trying to create The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Just ask the Koreans and Filipinos and Chinese how benevolent The Japanese army and occupiers were.
Much much more brutal than the colonial oppressors were. And the Kiwis and Aussies were terrified of Japanese invasion; as one writer described it, they were facing a tyranny more evil than could be imagined.
Oh, NoVa is teeming with muslims.
“...Iwo Jima was part of strategy which consisted... [of taking] their airfields so we could strike the next island on the way to mainland Japan...We didn’t want our rear exposed to Jap troops from Iwo Jima...” [ConservativeInPA, post 29]
Japanese troops on Iwo Jima were not a direct threat to Allied forces; by February 1945, the island was isolated by American naval units and air power.
But Imperial Japanese outposts on Iwo Jima were furnishing early warning to the Home Islands, about B-29 strikes. Allied planners also hoped to base fighters there, expecting they’d be needed to escort bomber strikes. At the time, no fighter in the world had the range to escort the B-29s all the way from their bases on Saipan, Tinian, and Guam all the way to the Home Islands and back.
As it turned out, air defense of the Home Islands never significantly interfered with Allied air strikes.
Airfields on Iwo Jima also served as recovery points for battle-damaged aircraft; the first B-29 to make an emergency landing did so only a few days after the initial landings. Numerous aircrews - bomber and fighter - were rescued thus.
Okinawa was much closer to the Home Islands, better situated to serve as a base for other heavy bombers (B-17s, B-24s, RAF Bomber Command Lancasters etc) that were expected to begin staging from the European Theater in late summer 1945. None of these earlier aircraft could range as far as the B-29s.
The Combined Bomber Offensive made major contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany, but by mid-1945 apologists for ground forces and sea forces were still strongly opposed to any “pure” air power strategy.
Quote marks around the word “pure” are appropriate; at no time did the Allies pursue any strategy strictly limited to a single force type.
For years, the US Navy (with such help as Britain, Australia, and the Netherlands could provide) attacked Japanese merchant shipping; American submarines were notably effective in halting transit of raw materials from occupied China and conquered territories to the south and west, and transport of troops and supplies from the Home Islands to these areas.
Local sea traffic in the Home Islands had been less affected, involving as it did harbors and sealanes where submarines could not venture.
But B-29s paralyzed local sea traffic in a few weeks by dropping mines into these areas.
Senior Allied leaders knew of the Manhattan Project but no one could predict if such any such contraption would even work. Still less could anyone predict how the Imperial Japanese leaders might respond.
For crying out loud, I said it was a rhetorical question!
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