Posted on 03/22/2018 4:21:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Japan used similar reasoning for the surgical strike on Pearl Harbor...
Actually, it was North Korea that did a Pearl Harbor on the US by crossing the 38th parallel with its entire army that summer day in 1950. It will likely do another Pearl Harbor the next chance it gets.
No they didn't. This is revisionism.
The US wasn't threatening to bomb Japanese mainland or even invade it. Japan was widening its hegemonic control of the Pacific rim and thought they could stem US interference by destroying the US Pacific fleet in Hawaii.
They made a fatal mistake.
NK has threatened to nuke the US. It won't be a "surgical strike." A properly positioned and detonated nuclear device would have devastating impact on US electronics infrastructure.
I guess I don’t see the similarity you are speaking of, except they were both pre-emptive. Japan had already started conquering territory. North Korea hasn’t bothas threatened the US.
Well, there’s this just in! Bolton is definitely a Hawk, so if war with the Norks that’s maybe in the offing, Bolton is the guy who’s on board with doing it.
McMaster to Resign as National Security Adviser, and Will Be Replaced by John Bolton
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/us/politics/hr-mcmaster-trump-bolton.html
Excellent choice. Trump is sending a message: “no more mister nice guy”, let’s get things done.
The similarity is the justification of the attack, without the realization that burning out one weed in a field of dry vegetation might not be the best plan...
All we did was cut off their access to resources.
Bolton is a good choice and should have been chosen last year at the start of the administration.
I want Rocket Man to think twice on every move he makes and having Bolton in this position makes it more likely he will.
Somehow I think the corrupt DC cabal want something to hit our country. Wouldn’t it be a shame if it hit DC instead if the left coast. A rapid draining of the swamp. I hate what our country has become. When states defy Federal law, our politicians in cahoots with 3rd world cesspool. Something needs to change and quick.
It’s nice to have someone who loves America in charge!
So much talk about talk. It is the three strike carrier groups sitting nearby that is sending President Trump’s message loud and clear.
I think the deal has already been struck. Turn over your nukes or big bada-boom.
Out of the four Al-Qaida hijacked airliners on 9-11-2001, only one, the one that targeted DC, didn’t make its target.
Some say it’s a pity. Had it hit the capitol, I wonder if the US wouldn’t be headed down the road to muslim ruin.
What?! No. Japan's preemptive sneak attack was strategically offensive.
After they raped Nanking.
I hear that. The collusion between the rats, rhinos and now I think POTUS is appalling. I really think they’re all conspiring to start a war on our own turf and it’s right around the corner.
So, no border wall and more stupid wars. That’s what Trump voters wanted, right?
This jerk never met a war he didn’t want someone else’s kids to fight.
Globalists Billy Kristol and John Bolton are always cheerleading to send US troops to the Middle East, but never to our southern border.
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