To: snippy_about_it
Had to be done. Else Australia falls to the Japanese. Indian Ocean becomes a Japanese lake. Japanese and Germans meet in India.
Those guys were the ones who were available, and so they were sent. There were going to be unknown monster mistakes, and everyone with a thought in his or her head knew it. Americans didn't, by and large, know more about Japan than Mars in those days.
51 posted on
12/06/2003 3:08:09 AM PST by
Iris7
("Duty, Honor, Country". The first of these is Duty, and is known only through His Grace)
To: Iris7
Americans didn't, by and large, know more about Japan than Mars in those days
Yep. Coming out of isolation I expect that's true. I'm sure we couldn't have let Japan have Australia.
52 posted on
12/06/2003 9:07:08 AM PST by
snippy_about_it
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