Originally Posted By: 1 FMF
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
And why exactly what I want to put any American life in danger? Why would I want one cent of tax money going to this?
What American freedom specifically is being threatened on our soil to justify using our military to do anything?
said those people in 1940 prior to Japan bombing Pearl Harbor.
would you rather fight them in your hometown, wrecking our buildings, property, and resources?
Not sure I buy the whole "we'd be speaking Japanese and eating seaweed" part of it, i.e. that the Japanese would have ever invaded. Maybe Im wrong, but even per the Office Of The Chief Of Military History, United States Army,
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Japan entered World War II with limited aims and with the intention of fighting a limited war. Its principal objectives were to secure the resources of Southeast Asia and much of China and to establish a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" under Japanese hegemony. In 1895 and in 1905 Japan had gained important objectives without completely defeating China or Russia and in 1941 Japan sought to achieve its hegemony over East Asia in similar fashion. The operational strategy the Japanese adopted to start war, however, doomed their hopes of limiting the conflict. Japan believed it necessary to destroy or neutralize American striking power in the Pacific the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the U.S. Far East Air Force in the Philippines before moving southward and eastward to occupy Malaya, the Netherlands Indies, the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, the Gilbert Islands, Thailand, and Burma. Once in control of these areas, the Japanese intended to establish a defensive perimeter stretching from the Kurile Islands south through Wake, the Marianas, the Carolines, and the Marshalls and Gilberts to Rabaul on New Britain. From Rabaul the perimeter would extend westward to northwestern New Guinea and would encompass the Indies, Malaya, Thailand, and Burma. Japan thought that the Allies would wear themselves out in fruitless frontal assaults against the perimeter and would ultimately settle for a negotiated peace that would leave it in possession of most of its conquests. (Map 42)
Nor do I think that in any reasonable time frame that the Islamic State would attempt to invade. Its not like the Muslims invading Constantinople and turning cathedrals into Mosques is going to happen by force in the USA in any reasonable time frame... And like the reason why the Japanese would not have invaded the USA, so it would go with ISIS.
This is a Muslim world issue, and they need to be sufficiently mad to execute appropriate measures to stop the madness. I will say that I looked closely at a few of the fire images and a bit of the video and it appears very computer graphic to me. In other words, while it may well have happened, and I have no doubt that unfortunately the Jordanian is dead (RIP), it sure looks doctored to me. I didnt care to watch the whole thing. The one I did watch was the Jordanian parliament up in arms over this, which did look real and realistic, and I do hope that their revenge is more than the six executed terrorists.
