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Surely YOU do find Mr. Buchanan's book a mysterious & scary thing. You obviously failed to read & understand the founding documents & the many debates concerning them. This country was not established as a free-for-all. Washington left home & styed at the War for Independence for seven long years. He & our ancestors did not then announce an end to our government, borders, property rights or our culture. The people now ( still ) hold that soveriegnty formerly of the King ( & exercise it via their local & state gov ). We, perhaps many millions of very quiet, non-activist, law abiding Americans, also will eventually defend what is ours-ignoring political correctness, media jackels, the UN, Left Wing socialists & any other fools or anti-American orginizations. I don't know where the line is that we might eventually cross & may not return from, but our leaders seem to want to go there. That is much more frieghtening than anything a pundit might put in a book. Mr. Buchanan only states the obvious-his work may be judged by the hostility of the response &, also, the vacuous comments by some.

The only real crime against Orientals, in this country, ( which I have noticed ) was the horrid failure to reimburse the people of Japanese ancestry ( & or nationality ) who were removed during WWII. Their removal was perhaps unpleasant-but the US Army had already made plans for meeting an anticipated invasion of the West Coast. They had actually put weapons & amunition at critical points through-out the Rocky Mountains, at key passes where they hoped to stop the Imperial Japanese Army. I note no one addreses the loss of property & income of those people rounded up-I, sir, see that as THE error & perhaps a crime.

They had actually put weapons & amunition at critical points through-out the Rocky Mountains, at key passes where they hoped to stop the Imperial Japanese Army.

Can you give me some more information on this or a source?

It is my understanding that with the Pacific Fleet decimated our plans were to cede the beaches, bloody the Japanese in the inland valleys and hold them at the three great passes of the Sierra Nevada until we could marshall enough force for a drive from the south.

The most aggressive Japanese plans of which I am aware had them taking the port cities, rolling to the western slope of the Nevadas and forcing the United States to sue for peace.

If the Rocky Mountain passes were fortified that means a Japanese breakthrough was anticipated and we were one step from complete surrender. I don't think that it was ever contemplated by either side. I do not see any advantage from a Japanese point of view for a war of maneuver on the high plains. If what you say is correct it adds a complete new dimension to my understanding of the war plans.