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To: SJackson

The Japanese hoped to catch America’s carriers in port, and knock us out of a potential war.

UBL hoped to engage America in a potential war, And in that, he succeeded.


3 posted on 09/14/2018 11:25:27 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I felt like we lost when Hussein was elected.


5 posted on 09/14/2018 11:27:38 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: PGR88
The Japanese hoped to catch America’s carriers in port, and knock us out of a potential war.

Ixnay, even if they had we would have rebuilt the fleet, prosecuted the war, and utterly defeated Japan. Such was that generation.

17 posted on 09/14/2018 12:00:44 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: PGR88
UBL hoped to engage America in a potential war, And in that, he succeeded.

Osama, a Saudi, engaged an operation where a team of Saudis (and an Egyptian or two) provoked the US into taking down the Saudis biggest enemy, Iraq.

23 posted on 09/14/2018 1:39:40 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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