[bd476]

Appalled but Not Surprised wrote: " The press, however, questioned American propaganda claims about so-called destruction of the "Japanese air craft carriers" at Midway, leading eventually to American surrender after the overwhelming casualties taken at the botched effort to take Tarawa.

It's obvious you're trying to add on some kind of a dissenting "yes, but..." response to this thread, which is actually about remembering Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.

It's unclear why you would want to try to steer the thread in that direction.

[Last Exit]

Another day America will never forget.

[IMRight]

It's obvious you're trying to add on some kind of a dissenting "yes, but..." response to this thread

I read it less as a "yes, but" and more as a "yes, and"... as in "yes... and look at how different things are today". It's unclear why you would want to try to steer the thread in that direction.

I think (s)he's pointing out that Japan/Germany found few "useful idiots" here in the states to fight their battles for them... but that there is no shortage today.

[chief_bigfoot]

" It's unclear why you would want to try to steer the thread in that direction."

I don't think it was dissention, I think it was an attempt to frame this historical moment in the terms and mentality of today's press. Would Howard Dean have come out and said that victory over the Japanese is "just plain wrong" and unachievable? I don't see it as steering, just adding another dimension to the discussion and serving as another reminder of what they were fighting and dying for then, as well as today. Hopefully we can rediscover that 'can-do' attitude that made the Greatest Generation so great. God Bless those who died 64yrs ago, as well as those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the WOT. May they never be forgotten.

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

I'm sneering at our leftist fifth column who call themselves "journalists."

You may wish to tell your wife to get you a sarcasm detector for Christmas; you clearly need it.