On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 2:06:35 PM UTC-5, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:08:56 -0600, philo wrote:

On 12/08/2016 11:19 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 11:53:36 AM UTC-5, philo wrote:
On 12/08/2016 10:48 AM, trader_4 wrote:


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More rewriting of history.




Obviously you have done no reading on WW-II

I've read-up extensively especially Churchill.

Maybe you need to do some reading too?



Let's review, shall we? You came here and made a post about
Newt's tweet:

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

You told us with that post:

The above quote was a "stand alone" quote and was not been taken out of context. Had the statement been part of of a broader analysis it might have been a different issue but it's false no matter how one looks at it.

In fact, the quote was preceded immediately before by this tweet:

€œDecember 7 is a good day to remember that the world is dangerous and shattering surprise is possible even when we have been warned,€�


So, let's put it together in context:

€œDecember 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.."


And you think I'm the one that can't read or get things right?
And note this isn't the first time you've done this, it's happened
many times before, where you don't have the basic facts, or have
them wrong.




Moot point .

There is no good day to praise Japanese brilliance for the attack, but
Pearl Harbor day is certainly the worst possible day to do so.

Since the war did not end so well for Japan, the attack was hardly
brilliant...it was a fatal blunder. Japan never thought the US had the
guts or capability to fight back.


Do you not understand the difference between tactical and strategic?
The Japanese attack was a spectacular tactical success. The Japanese
political strategy was ill advised.


+1

Or even the broader military strategy, was ill advised. But the attack on
Pearl Harbor was a stunning success, well executed, inflicting
significant losses on the US
while sustaining very limited losses to the Japanese.

That we should remember that, be vigilant today was the essence of Newt's
comments, taken in *context*.