Posted on 07/02/2007 1:43:07 PM PDT by pabianice
June 5th 1945 Harry Reid and Pelosi would be claiming the D-Day invasion failed.
Whoops, 1944 I mean.
With today’s media Roosevelt would have asls television “exposees” about his private life and even legs too.
BTW did you know that Roosevelt came very close to being a bombing victim is mass mail bomb /red scare of 1919? If he had not declined a drink he and the man leading the terrorism investigation would almost certainly have been blown up. Everyone from the Supreme Court Justices to captains of industry and politicians were targeted.
You’re OK. On June 5 1944, the surrender crowd would have leaked the plans to the press and called the weather that day “disasterous”. On June 5 1945 they would have had a one year commemoration of the “slaughter” of U.S. troops on the beaches of Normandy, and would be demanding that occupying U.S. forces should be withdrawing from the “quagmire” of a European civil war.
Yep they would have complained that it was taking too long to fight our way across France to get to Germany.
They would have wanted a peace treaty with Germany that would have left Hitler in power and in control of all the countries he occupied in exchange for a “truce” that would never have been respected by the likes of a Hitler.
I would guess that President Truman would have had a hell of a time explaining the bomb.
Political Correctness means never again being able to win a war.
I dunno, ask the people of Nanking what they thought of Japan.
Also ask the survivors of the Bataan Death march.
Exactly. When you are in a war, there's bound to be massive inhumanity, like the Death March of Nanking, or the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The most appropriate response, I think, is racism. Don't you?
Not to mention the rape of Bataan! Damn slanty eyed yellow nippers.
“The most appropriate response, I think, is racism. Don’t you?”
What a trollish thing to say.
No.
The most appropriate response in war is to crush the enemy, not play paddy-cake with them.
That does not include racism.
Crushing the enemy totally is the correct response. Racism is moronic and it relegates the perpetrator to the sewer. Americans always show class and are proud to be high minded.
Are you trying to appear stupid or is it an accident?
Not always, look at the 1992 elections.
But anyway, racism only relegates one to brutism.
I agree. I'm simply pointing out that part of what we call "political correctness" is the removal of overt racism as appropriate public discourse. Granted, Orwellian terms such as "hatespeech" are ripe for abuse by the lefties who promote them, but a lot of WW2 era style discourse has rightly been thrown on the ash heap.
If America today were like the America of the 1940s, major newspapers would use terms like "Ragheads" and "Muzzies" on the front page. Would that be a good thing? Is that necessary in order to have the national will to crush an enemy? Maybe so.
Americans didn't always show class, as the bugs cartoon demonstrates. We need guts and will, but much of what is gone is better off gone.
I’m sorry. Did you say something? I had my moron filter on.
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