Damned Germanz...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%ABga-class_helicopter_destroyer
Japan again has carriers as large as some involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
And countries in the region other than China are happy about it.
We may have had a small weak military prior to Pearl Harbor, but at least we were nominally one people.
Compared to now.
When traditional Americans have difficulty understand why everyone doesn’t understand the nature of the threats that now face this country, they need to consider that there are hundreds of thousands - millions - of people here now who hate their host.
Hate it, and outside of their little circle, want to see it destroyed.
It had some real leaders that reflected U.S. ingenuity and Christian values.
Poor phrasing.
The federal government can lead the nation. The federal government cannot control the nation. This is a critical difference.
A metastasized cancer won’t go willingly into remission.
It’s going to take watering the Tree of Liberty. That’s
why we have a Second Amendment, and why the left is so
dead set against an armed citizenry. I’m beginning to
think we have passed the point where there is enough
resolve to save our nation, which may be a good thing.
Events often turn for the better when the bottom is reached.
These numbers seem wildly inflated to me.
A million pilots? for how many planes?
<Trumpet blare>
<Giant amplified voice> "Enter the Bilderbergers! All hail the New World Order!!"
<Kettle drums and fanfares>
"All hail Oceania!" <Anthem begins>
I can hardly wait.
What people tend to overlook is that Europe was a wreck after WWII, with the U.S.A. intact. The feds did win the war. But the economy was a wreck and the feds were responsible for that. We supplied the world with goods and rebuilt Europe, essentially a monopoly enjoyed by our economy until Europe and Japan got back on their feet. The feds took credit for the growth, but much of it wasn't due to their policies, just good fortune. Dems got drunk with power and the feds stuck their nose into everything thinking they had "solved" everything. Sigh...
“By the end of that war, the U.S. stood alone as the premier military power in the world”
Nonsense. The Soviet Union had more and better tanks, more troops and an Airforce that was comparable. It was all built largely due to the benefits of lend lease manufacturing equipment, but you can’t say their military might wasn’t a force to be reckoned with. If they had kept coming east things would have been very bad. At least until they starved because lend lease was also providing most of their food.
Democrats were ardently patriotic during WWII. Not any longer. Not since Hubert H Humphrey...The New Left (Communists) took the party over, and the Clintons and Obama are what we all got out of that.
New images of a PBY-5 Catalina Flying Boat downed on 12/7/41.
As an example of how the nation has changed, the most progressive, liberal President in the history up to that time was faced with what to do with people who came to this country from a foreign land where they were expected to die without question in order to fight the enemies of their god, including committing suicide if necessary.
Same description of the President today, same description of a murderous enemy, but look at the difference in action taken today.
After Pearl Harbor, the liberal President, after consulting with the state governor who later becaume one of the most liberal Supreme Court justices of all time, took measures to protect American citizens and, at the same time, to protect the suspect foreign enemies, though mostly innocent individuals, from unwarranted extermination by an enraged American citizenry. Yet today, we have ......[crickets]
I’m not saying I favor what Franklin Roosevelt and Earl Warren did, I’m just pointing out the contrast.
I could. FDR was worse than Hitler in some ways. Germany has mostly washed away the stain of what Hitler did but we still live with Franklin's mess.