Will Great Britain cave and pull a "Spain"?

I think in spite of all the talk about a stiff upper lip and how tough Londoners are that the English will cave. I think that you are right.

 

Blair won't cave!

 

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What is the US/British military supposed to lay to waste?
It's not like Al-Qaida has a standing army.

 

Find them, fix them, and kill them. "Them" are terrorists - by any name - and those who intentionally harbor or support them. That is the only real choice we have.

 

Find them, fix them, and kill them. "Them" are terrorists - by any name - and those who intentionally harbor or support them. That is the only real choice we have. </font>[/QUOTE]Seems to me there is a certain history your overlooking here Patrick. Our own government has a long record of harboring and supporting terrorists and dictators. Saddam was our guy at one time, Bin Laden was our buddy at one time, the Uzbek pres is/was our buddy, the Taliban, Pakistan, Panama etc. and now the MEK in Iraq/Iran.

Do as I say not as I do...is that it?

 

And how long did it take the US to get involved in these wars? I don't see any record of them jumping to fight Hitler in 1939 or 40 even though Britain was constantly under attack.

Talk about appeasement.

 

Roger,

You are correct there. And if the Constitutionalists, America First, isolationists of their day had been in charge, we would never have gone to war.

Joseph Botwinick

 

Touche Joseph - point taken.

 

So the constitution is bad, Americans for America is bad and people that constantly interfere with other countries internal affairs by supporting "friendly revolutionarys and freedom fighters" setting up dictators, despots, and drug dealers loyal to "our" interests is good. Hmmm.

I'm sure glad that our government had the foresight and wherewithall to maniplute Japan into making the "first strike" with their 8 step plan.

 

Interesting. So you don't believe that the Japanese had free will?

 

And how long did it take the US to get involved in these wars? I don't see any record of them jumping to fight Hitler in 1939 or 40 even though Britain was constantly under attack.

Talk about appeasement. </font>[/QUOTE]I don't remember any peace at any cost agreements we had with Nazi Germany. Although we may have had one I don't know about. That would have been appeasement.

The US helped and supported Britain in a number of ways, but Roosevelt was faced with a public that just did not think it was their fight.

At any rate, Roosevelt devised a strategy to coax the Japanese into attacking us and it worked.

The rest is history, as they say.

 

"Interesting. So you don't believe that the Japanese had free will?"

Pearl Harbor was not about war with Japan -
It was about war with GERMANY

Most important was the promise FDR had made to the American people - solemnly given and repeated--not to send their sons into foreign war unless attacked (audio). He did not mind violating that pledge. He merely feared the political effect of the violation. Alsop and Kintner, White House columnist pets, had written a short time before that "He (Roosevelt) does not feel he can openly violate them (his pledges). But he can get around them the smart way." They explained this meant getting the Germans to shoot first. Then he could shoot back. But it was clear to him by November that the Germans were not going to shoot first. But FDR knew that he could force the Japanese to do so.

HITLER WOULD NOT DECLARE WAR IF U.S. UNBEATABLE
OBJECTIVE: War with Germany. How do you bait Hitler to declare war on you? You don't get it by looking unbeatable!
Direct provocation in Atlantic had failed - Hitler didn't bite.
FDR knew from magic that if Japan attacked, Germany would declare war.
Therefore: the problem was how to maneuver Japan into firing the first shot or make the first overt act.
Japan must succeed or Hitler would renege.
War with Japan was a given because they had to attack the Philippines. If Japan's fleet were destroyed, it would defeat the purpose. It would have been obvious suicide for Hitler to declare war if Japan were crippled - it would allow the US to attack him without even the possibility of a two-front war. That was what he had just been avoiding for months. The plan could only work if Japan's attack succeeded. The lure of a weakened US in a two-front war focused on Japan seemed to make a German war declaration cost-free. But it was all a trap - FDR was always going to ignore Japan and go after Hitler, for his ultimate goal was to save his beloved Soviet Communism.

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Considering that they have a history of a thousand years and more (compared to our measly two hundred plus), yes, they've appeased, they've conquered, they've lost, they've just about done it all.

Yeah, Churchill rallied the folk. Of course, the bombings provoked a bit of a response as well.

Of course, some people do wonder if the "way it has to be fought" really means attacking a completely unrelated country while the instigator of the 9-11 attack goes free, but every war has its quibblers.

Um, why in the world would you want to do anything like that?

That worked pretty well for the most part.

Hey! I have an idea - instead of killing 10 innocents for 1 (which would make us worse terrorists than them), why don't we get the guilty?

 

No, we don't and never have harbored or supported terrorists. We have worked with various leaders and governments over the years that have changed their tune with time. Sometimes we've made the best call we could at the time given the choices on the table. That hardly means we've ever supported terrorism. Americans, and America's government, have never supported the kind of terrorism we're fighting today. We've always deplored it. To think otherwise is another one of those liberal antiwar fallacies that circulates among those gullible enough to fall for it.

 

I see. So you don't believe the Japanese had free will?

There are times that I am glad that I do not live with the same perception of reality that you do, poncho.

 

"No, we don't and never have harbored or supported terrorists. We have worked with various leaders and governments over the years that have changed their tune with time. Sometimes we've made the best call we could at the time given the choices on the table. That hardly means we've ever supported terrorism. Americans, and America's government, have never supported the kind of terrorism we're fighting today. We've always deplored it. To think otherwise is another one of those liberal antiwar fallacies that circulates among those gullible enough to fall for it."

Semantics. If it looks like a rabid rat, walks like a rabid rat and bites like a rabid rat it is really a furry little kitten.

"There are times that I am glad that I do not live with the same perception of reality that you do, poncho. "

Well you come purty close at one time partner so I know your plausible deniability ain't made of steel.

 

Some folks just aren't happy unless they're beating up there on people. By their account everything bad that happens on the face of the earth is because of America one way or another. Since you mentioned it, I think I do see a rat in all this.