Everyone should rent/buy a copy of the movie “The Sand Pebbles.” Aside from being a brilliant movie and probably the best movie of the 1960s, it is wonderful in its depiction of how the US can be drawn into a war not of its own making.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060934/
Good movie. In The Sand Pebbles, the sailors had the Chinese coolies doing their work for them because it was “their rice bowl.” Seems a little like the current situation. Like a kind of inertia has taken over.
“Holman come down”!
“Holman come down”!
“Holman come down”!
My grandfather was a CPO in the U.S.Navy prior to and during WWI. The Sand Pebbles brought tears to his eyes.
actually, you need to watch these videos of Diana West on the Betrayal of the West
She has some things to say how we sided with the Soviets on PURPOSE because of the commie infiltration of the roosevelt admin
we fought Japan to keep Russia from having a two front war, too, it is in these videos of this playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgOu_-FU-JE&index=9&list=PLkoOH05Yvyb2IfDUSxkoYQSrKyH9XORbq