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That is one strong case example.
posted by
A-and-B
on November 13, 2006 at 2:30 PM
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As a retired military officer (Submariner), Gome...
I think you nailed it sound and true. The left always has had difficulty incorporating into its mindset facts that do not support its positions. I wrote about this in
Through a Glass Darkly. Check it out.
posted by
arGee
on November 8, 2006 at 7:55 PM
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I mean Labatt
posted by
calmcantey75
on November 8, 2006 at 3:58 PM
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not just think of themselves as god
but as the sole emissaries of god.
posted by
Xeno-x
on November 8, 2006 at 2:20 PM
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you can't have a revolution, convince the masses without conjuring ..
....the gods, such as the white anglo saxon industrial/military complex gods as we are now experiencing, but all leaders must invoke something larger than themselves to retain power...without that methodology, dogma, horse crap, they would never be able to extract tribute from distant foreign lands, nor would they be able to hold their own citizens to ransom for their aspirations of power and glory...oh, a great book that deals with WWII is Writers From World War Two ( I think I may have mentioned this before in your comment section)
posted by
FranklyMydear1
on November 8, 2006 at 2:17 PM
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Gome
thank you
Ill bring some Lalatt for your trouble.
posted by
calmcantey75
on November 8, 2006 at 1:46 PM
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cantey_1975 - when you do, I'll give you a few pointers on how to drive a
dogsled.
posted by
gomedome
on November 8, 2006 at 1:09 PM
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SuccessWarrior - a few years back, I had a lengthy discussion with a
Japanese war veteran.
He is convinced that his country would have never surrendered otherwise. He is also convinced that he would not be alive today if not for the use of atomic bombs. The entire Japanese citizenry, down to every last woman and child were prepared to die repelling any landing. Any attempt to take the main Japanese islands by conventional means would have likely resulted in far more casualties than both bombs combined, with this number shared by both sides. Modern day revisionists take none of this into consideration. It is my conclusion that the official version of the use of the atomic bombs saving American and Allied lives while bringing about a surrender that was otherwise not going to happen in the foreseeable future, is accurate.
posted by
gomedome
on November 8, 2006 at 1:07 PM
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Gome, I am currently reading a book about WWII
It's a collection of interviews of American Veterans. Yesterday I read where one of the soldiers was recently back from Germany and was about to be sent to Japan and he said, "Thank God for the A-bomb." Earlier in the interview he went into detail about how hard it was to fight the Japanese because they wouldn't surrender no matter what.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on November 8, 2006 at 12:41 PM
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Very interesting.
I must agree with you that enormous problems erupt whenever MEN come to think of themselves as God.
posted by
telemachus
on November 8, 2006 at 12:13 PM
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I think I might move to Canada.
posted by
calmcantey75
on November 8, 2006 at 11:51 AM
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