pearl harbor day

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by cal828

If it happened today, the CIA wouldn't be able to tell us who did it or the perpetrators would be declared classified information. Congress would "investigate" it with a great deal of pontificating on both sides which would end with no conclusions as to what we should do. Corporations would decide that Japan was probably going to win the war so they'd start moving factories there.

i think this is absurd.
huge difference between an attack by a country and it's military against another, and an attack from a mob flying no flags in a foreign country filled with unrest.


and this was not the intent of this thread. too bad it's getting muddied up.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i think this is absurd.
huge difference between an attack by a country and it's military against another, and an attack from a mob flying no flags in a foreign country filled with unrest.


and this was not the intent of this thread. too bad it's getting muddied up.

It's too bad we live in a day and age when we feel we have to bribe our enemies not to attack.

Maybe if we gave government handouts to bullies in school we could put the end to bullying all together.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

It's too bad we live in a day and age when we feel we have to bribe our enemies not to attack.

Maybe if we gave government handouts to bullies in school we could put the end to bullying all together.

and the absurdity piles on.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Danzig

and the absurdity piles on.

If we were attacked by a known nation the skies would be black like a locust plague only with drones and we would bomb the **** out of them. At that point an innoncent civilian would get hurt and Dell will start a thread about Drones KILLING Innocent civilians and how Obama was a WAR criminal for authorizing such an attack. We know the boring ****ing drill.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i think this is absurd.
huge difference between an attack by a country and it's military against another, and an attack from a mob flying no flags in a foreign country filled with unrest.


and this was not the intent of this thread. too bad it's getting muddied up.

Good. That was my intent. Not to muddle up, but to be absurd. When you start with a hypothetical, you kind of figure, it's going to be absurd.

[GenuineRisk]

In the interests of moving this thread back to the original intent, here's a link to FDR's "Day that will in infamy" speech (audio and transcript):

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...earlharbor.htm