> (John Bodin) writes:
>>In comparison, the Japanese in WW II were honorable enemies when they
>>attacked Pearl Harbor -- they attacked military targets wearing the
>>colors of the country of Japan proudly on their *** planes and and
>>on their uniforms. Even so, the Japanese did not declare war prior to
>>the attackon Pearl Harbor. The act itself was a declaration of war,
>>though, and they knew it going in.
> The formal declaration of war was SUPPOSED to be delivered about an hour
> before
> the first bombs fell. A bureaucratic screwup delayed the documents.
> Eldred
Not to mention the fact that they had been telling us we would be going to
war for *20 years.*
One might well ask whether America had formally declared war before it
sailed its naval flotilla into the soverign waters of Nagasaki harbor, and
with guns loaded and aimed at shore informed Japan, which had been at peace
internally and externally for nearly 300 years with a formal declaration of
neutrality, that its neutrality would no longer be respected?
History started before Pearl Harbor. The Japanese did not just wake up one
morning and get a "bee in their bonnet" to attack the US.
The first act of war was perpetrated, without warning or declaration, by
the US, and in total violation of international law.
One might also note, if one were a cynic, that no formal declartion of war
was ever made against North Korea, North Vietnam, Cuba ( which for some
reason we still formally class as an enemy), Panama or Nicaragua.
If we're going to ***, we shouldn't then practice what we preach against.
Pearl Harbor was an act of war between one nation and another. Both
countries knew in advance there would be war. The nation attacked had
previously violated the formally declared neutral waters of the attacker.
The attacker used the legal military forces of that nation to attack a
military target of the other. In other words, international business as
usual. Nothing to see here, move along.
Ok, I'm writing this from the safty of decades and thousands of miles. So
let me interject the words of a survivor of the Arizona when asked his
opinion of the "sneak attack."
"Militarily it was brilliant. I don't hold anything against them for that.
Perhaps it was because growing up in the south my grandaddy always told me
that when you attack you "do it in greater numbers, and when they arn't
looking." What did you expect them to do, call up say they were coming?"
The attack on the WTC was a private act, by a private orginization, for
private reasons. They have perpetrated previous attacks against us, and
formally declared their intent to perpetrate others. It was an attack
against a purely civil target for purely political reasons.
There is absolutely NO similarity between this attack and Pearl Harbor,
except for the shock of those who had blinded their eyes in advance so as
to be able to claim they never saw it coming.
It was a dasterdly deed by dasterdly people, but not only predicted in
theory by hundreds, whom those now claiming to be shocked and stunned told
to shut up and go away, but predicted in theory * by the perpetrators
themselves.*
Do people remember that is the SECOND attack? Likely by the SAME people?
What more "declaration of war" do you need than a bomb in the target?
For those who might be wondering and think it might be relevant, I am
posting this from upstate NY. I have one cousin "MIA," and was at least
passingly aquainted with two people on the planes, and possibly a third. I
have not had the luxury of time and distance this time, at least with
regards to friends and family.
KFG
