On 12/08/2016 08:55 AM, philo wrote:



I mentioned that Gingrich made a post that I did not like.
Rather than get to the heart of it, some here mentioned that he made two
Tweets yesterday. In re-checking I see we were all wrong, he made a sum
total of three Tweets on Dec. 7th.

I will cut and paste here in correct order:


----start of cut and paste----


December 7 is a good day to remember that the world is dangerous and
shattering surprise is possible even when we have been warned.

75 years ago the Japanese displayed professional brilliance and
technological power launching surprises from Hawaii to the Philippines


Japanese planning and trainng let them also carry out surprise attacks
in Hong Kong and Malaysia.It was widest surprise attack in history




---end of cut and paste----


Because the grammaticality of his statements is poor and there is one
mis-spelling, it's obvious that he wrote them in a hurry and did not
think things through.

For some dummy like me to post something like that on Usenet is one
thing...but for a public figure to do so is something else. Because
"training" is spelled wrong, it seems he does not even grasp the
fundamentals of a simple spell checker.

Conspicuously absent is any tribute to the American military and the
sacrifices they made for our freedom. Equally troubling was heaping
praise on the Japanese for their brilliance. I've made enough previous
comments so there is no need for me to elaborate.

Even his last statement is faulty for many reasons. Although those at
Pearl Harbor were obviously surprised, FDR had good reason to know we
were going to be attacked at some point. The day of "911" was probably a
much larger surprise, but that is still a pale comparison.

Gingrich has an encyclopedic ignorance of WWII if he thinks he can get
away with a fool statement such as he's made. Operation Barbarossa,
where Hitler sent millions of troops to attack the Soviet Union made
Pearl Harbor look like a picnic. Stalin had a pact with Hitler and was
absolutely stunned by the change of tide.

It would be nice if Gingrich even had a slight hint of a clue as to what
is rational.


Finally. If one cannot coherently get their ideas across in a single
Tweet one is guilty of a cluttered thinking process. It took Gingrich
three Tweets to get across an idea that could have been contained to a
single post. At least Trump does not go over two.