Pop Quiz - Why we (the US) are to blame for 9/11 (Page 4)
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Expert ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Left Brain - 2013-03-25 1:23 AM KateTri1 - 2013-03-24 11:29 PM Left Brain - 2013-03-24 11:25 PM trinnas - 2013-03-24 6:04 AM UrsusAdiposimus - 2013-03-23 10:16 PM scorpio516 - 2013-03-23 7:46 PM Many do, and I am going to say with 100% confidence that I know many more military historians than you do UrsusAdiposimus - 2013-03-23 10:04 AM Many historians believe the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they believed the U.S. was preparing to enter WWII anyway in the near-term and made a strategic calculation to strike us pre-emptively. I don't see how that dishonors the people who died on that day. I don't know any historians who don't believe that However, you could also say that WWII in the Pacific only started because US Commodore Perry forced open Japan in 1853-54.
(The US's forcible opening of Japan toppled the Tokugawa shogunate through the Meiji Restoration/Revolution, which ended 150 years of peace and restored the emperor to head of state. The forcible trade we did westernized the country, and the islands did not have the natural resources to support this. Korea was annexed in 1895. Parts of Siberia in 1905. Manchuria in 1931. Then they invaded China in 37.) ![]() All Meglomaniacs need a rallying cry and an archenemy. They also tend to need poor, uneducated, disaffected young men for cannon fodder/suicide bombers. The US just makes for the biggest target on the world stage. Our support of "infidel regimes" is the excuse AQ uses for their actions but their ultimate goal is to be the ones in power in the middle east and to remake it into what they deem to be acceptable. If you hit the Saudis it does not make the same splash as hitting the US. It is the same concept as a Super Bowl ad in terms of fundraising and recruiting, - Go big or go home! What you have is people who want to revive the middle east of the Dark ages when Muslim culture there was in its ascendency and a bright spot in the world. If you give AQ everything they want in the middle east they will still fi and bnd a beef with the rest of the world and the US in particular until they are the ones "on top" again. Ultimately it is about power, they want it, we have it. What they fail to realize is that it is our way of life, freedom and apple pie that has allowed us to be where we are on the world stage. The other thing they fail to realize is that we will bring ourselves down in time, all empires do. In the meantime, the other thing they forgot, we will hunt you down and kill you......because we can. We may indeed eventually bring ourselves down....but it won't be against a third world country led by a bunch of religious fanatics......or a bunch of religious fanatics led by a third world country. We are not the USSR, which was brought to it's knees by these idiots..... this is the United States of America...and no matter what our detractors, both here and abroad, want to say about us we are still the greatest force for good the modern world has known. I'd say there are a few in this country. Of course, Kate......but it's the same as it alway has been in this country......the "few" are just that. They get a voice because our constitution affords them a voice....but they don't make policy, no matter what yiou hear. Policy is set by the majority...as always. How do you qualify that statement? Voting? And do you think that when people vote they do so with great understanding of what would be "best" for the country? Or who has the best political ads. |
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