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To: fractionated
Yes. Fortunately, we achieved the "win honorably" option.

You need to become more informed about WWII, both in terms of how we waged war strategically and on the ground. The use of the atomic bomb, the fire bombings of Tokyo, Dresden, Hamburg, etc killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, including women and children, and rounding up our own citizens and putting them in camps may not fit the definition of honorable depending on your perspective. And we didn't take prisoners in much of fighting against the Japanese. We adapted to the circumstances and the actions of our enemy. I have no problem with what we did, but to call them honorable is to redefine the meaning of the word. And make no mistake about it, we were prepared to do anything to ensure our national survival. No consideration was given to losing honorably.

I have actually been in a war. You seem to be living in a fantasy world. Unfortunately, many people today believe that the way we fight wars today is the norm. Actually, it is not. When you are fighting for your very survival, terms like honorable are empty and hollow. We have the luxury now of having so much military superiority over our enemies that we can try to fight them as surgically and antiseptically as possible. Our national survival is not at stake.

Some people just give up easily, because they're too darn lazy to bust their butts doing the hard work of persuading voters.

We have gone beyond that point. It is no longer a matter of convincing voters, but just pure numbers. The Democrats, under the banner of multiculturalism and diversity, have forged a political coalition that depends on individuals coalescing around racial and ethnic identities rather than the issues. The continuing and increasing flow of minority immigrants, mostly poor and uneducated, provides a natural constituency for the Democrats, which see them as their principal source of political power.

87 percent of the 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually are minorities as defined by the U.S. Government and almost all of the illegal aliens are minorities. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under in the U.S. will be classified as minorities and by 2042, half of the residents of this country will be minorities. Generally, immigrants and minorities vote predominantly for the Democrat Party. Hence, Democrats view immigration as a never-ending source of voters that will make them the permanent majority party.

122 posted on 01/31/2013 7:57:26 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar
87 percent of the 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually are minorities as defined by the U.S. Government and almost all of the illegal aliens are minorities. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under in the U.S. will be classified as minorities and by 2042, half of the residents of this country will be minorities.

Irrelevant; nonwhite people can be persuaded by ideas just like white people. (Er... you don't dispute that fact, right?)

123 posted on 01/31/2013 8:30:44 AM PST by fractionated
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