Posted on 07/13/2024 8:12:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been war crimes.
They can fight whoever the hell they want, without our money, troops and weapons.
What if elephants had long necks instead of giraffes?
Perhaps:
Train dogs to go after people holding guns.
Turn those dogs lose in the tunnels.
The hostages don’t have guns and would not get harmed by the dogs.
We’d have just told them to “Get Pumped”.
Yeah. Japan, you know, flew a few planes, sank a few ships in Hawaii, and then the US went all “crazy” with a totally disproportionate response that totally ruined the Japanese Empire and nuked two cities. It’s clear who the bad guys were. War crime trials for the winners!
“Summary of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Their Additional Protocols”
They can fight whoever the hell they want, without our money, troops and weapons.
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Exactly, but with a hitch….did I ( you) get to vote for Afghanistan, Iraq Debacle? Or senile Joe’s Ukie war? Or $$$ billions sent down the filthy Ukrainian toilet?
No the people did not. We are a Republic, and this is what happens to Republics when the “ elected officials” become corrupted, putting their citizens last, more caring about power, special interests and money….this is also how Revolutions occur, no different than having a ruling Monarch or Dictator.
Term limits are the only answer to maintaining a Republic.
“ A republic if you can keep it”, Ben Franklin.
The place to get the money back is to get out of EVERY globalist orginization.
I mean how else are they going to build that new canal if they don’t destroy Gaza and Hamas first..
The first fire bombing of Tokyo would have been meet with condemning editorials from the new york times. Libs would have cried racism.
> Term limits are the only answer to maintaining a Republic. <
Yes. As you noted, the longer politicians stay in office, the less they care about the average citizen.
Imposing term limits is actually very doable. But all current office-holders must be exempt. That’s distasteful. But it would be the only way to get their support.
There is precedence for this. When presidential term limits were imposed, the current president (Harry Truman) was exempt from the new rules.
Special note:
If the USG had NOT imposed strict wartime orders for the press,
and
If the media of today was present in 1945,
Damn skippy we’d have seen public sentiment turn as it did during Vietnam.
(the secret sauce lies within)
No need to even refer back as far as Japan.
Quotes:
On June 22 1982, Joe Biden was a Senator from Delaware and confronted then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his Senate Foreign Relations committee testimony, threatening to cut off aid to Israel.
Begin forcefully responded, “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Quotes:
According to the many reports on this meeting, back in 1982, the American senator reportedly banged his fist on the table. Begin wasn’t pleased with this attitude.
He responded. “This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do?”
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-800679
“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.”
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/pound-table
Much like the Copperheads in the Civil War.
“without our money, troops and weapons”
Israel doesn’t need our money or our troops.
If Israel doesn’t get US smart bombs, it will use dumb bombs.
Smart bombs generally cause less collateral damage than dumb bombs.
I am surprised the NY Times did not call for Total War against islam after 9-11.
Nah, it was the New York Times.
“term limits”
Unless elected people know the ropes, the bureaucrats will run the show.
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