A: Because he could.
Posted on 08/25/2005 11:00:49 PM PDT by Ronin
How about "salamikaze?"
you need two "a"'s after the "l", though...
And the US did not even rape, or pillage as they moved up to Japan to take it over. Imagine if it were reversed, and we as a country WERE facing pillaging and looting and enslavement (not freedom) from the otherside, as they approached the ports of Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
I find it hard to imagine that any American could have nostalgia and sympathy for a kamikaze.
As do I, the context I was speaking of was the typhoon the knocked out the fleet trying to invade Japan, not the pilots during WW2. Just to be clear.
Here's a tip. Don't glorify our enemies. Then, or now.
Well, it's a tough stylistic choice, for sure.
"Salaam" as in peace, or "salami" as in sausage. I prefer the latter. ;-)
Pretty much rules out anyone who denies him as God's Son and Savior.
I've wondered if the Father might yet have a say in this matter. While no Bible scholar, the verse does seem open to varying interpretations. It could mean that the Son is the gateway to the Father in that he blesses the worthy even though they may not be Christians and perhaps rejects the unworthy even though they may call themselves Christians. It could also mean that the path to the Father is to follow the way of the Son. This would also seem to leave room for some of those who do not think of themselves as Christians.
In any case, we Christians can miss the fact that the Father has a unique purpose and covenant for the decedents of Isaac (the Jews) that continues to this day. In the Gospel we see Jesus, the highly observant Jew and direct descendant of Abraham and Isaac, referencing Deuteronomy (the law) more than any other book of the Hebrew Bible. His existence seems to reinforce the unique place the Jews have in God's plan. With that in mind, I can not find it in myself to subscribe to the narrow interpretation of this verse.
Sounds like a dangerous but delicious sandwich ingredient.
I tend to agree. Victor Hanson likens them both to a "save face"/honor system that really does not value human life. Many kamikazes were NOT volunteers by the end of the war, and after Okinawa, the Japanese government was having a helluva time getting kamikaze pilots. Guess everyone didn't care for that kind of "honor."
I find them quite similar---the main difference is that (so far) kamikazes ONLY targeted military personnel. But as the Japanese grew more desperate, given their barbarism at Bataan, the Chinese experimentation camps, and so on, I have no doubt that the kamikazes would have been used to attack civilian targets if there were any in range.
Not hard to imagine, it's happening, culturally by the ACLU/Left and possibly militarily when the Islamo-fascists we're speaking of here decide to strike again on our soil. As a "free" society we are unwittingly (to many) setting ourselves up for that future battle.
Will we have the stomach as a nation, and enough honorable men/women left, to fight and win it?
During the attack, the Japanese pilots were expressly ordered to avoid going near the hospital ship Solace, which was anchored near the upper end of the harbor. Later on in the war (I believe during the Battle of Okinawa), another hospital ship was targeted and struck by a kamikaze, but I have never seen anything that indicates that hospital ships were deliberate targets.
I'm not making any excuses for this pilot, but when you are three miles up and five miles out and starting your attack run on a ship, it is quite difficult to identify the ship you are targeting.
Their psychotic greedy Mo'ham', Hellfire and JDAMnation be upon him and them, was a mass murdering rapist bandit gang leader jealous of the far more productive Jewish and Christian cultures among others, whose more intelligent followers over the following half dozen generations created this Islam religion so as to better justify their demands for obedience of societies conquored or nearly exterminated.
Islam's terrorists are but Einsatzgruppen al-Mecca. Hitler appreciated the devout muslims Jew killing just as the devout muslims appreciated Hitler's Final Solution.
Americans must read Islam's battle plan Mein Koran, together with their other "holy" scriptures as 1930's history of savage annihilation is NOW repeating while our media is cannonizing that crazy woman camped in Crawford. Our military is ordered to play cops in every theater of war crimes war.
Thank you for your voice of reason.
I had the opportunity when I was in Japan twenty years ago to speak with a man who was 9 years old near the end of WWII. He remembers his teacher committing suicide because he flubbed the prayer to the emperor that morning, and had been dishonored because the emperor was worshipped as a literal god on earth.
Yes, the word kamikaze comes from the two typhoons that sunk two separate mongol invading fleets, but it was called divine wind because it supported the Japanese position that they were the chosen people of the gods and were the only truly human race on the planet. The Kamikaze pilots were the implementations of this divine wrath and were the agents of the emperor god of Japan in dispensing judgment upon the subhuman barbarians who were coming to invade the holy land of Japan.
Each kamikze flight was prefaced with a religious ceremony, including prayers to the emperor god of Japan and a dedication of the pilots to be instruments of his divine wrath.
The differences between Japanese kamikaze suicides and islamofascists are not as great as the original poster would have you believe.
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