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To: Slagle who wrote (17095)	4/14/2007 10:43:53 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217981

<<You seem to believe that the USA should have stayed out of WWII>> ... not at all. I am merely noting that the various derived conclusions by the odd assorted posters are not factual, and my response is post specific. any claim that little japan could/would have held on to any portion of china/korea over any extended time beyond what the average american is used to is not well founded, and is in same mode as believing victory in iraq is remotely possible, ala neocon bs. if the japanese high command at the time did not believe it could hold china, why should americans of the 21st century believe otherwise? this is just the sort of faulty thinking that got america into the fruitless exercises of vietnam etc <<Without American aid, China, as an independent nation, was finished>> ... hardly as bad as that; where do such beliefs arise from?

To: Slagle who wrote (17095)	4/15/2007 12:31:03 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217981

Someone said we should discuss investing more directly rather than debating history. But we have to look carefully at history in order to understand the political-economic background of today. Slagle, you advocate that Roosevelt should have ignored the attack on Pearl Harbour, killing 4-5000 people. Instead he "got us into the war" as Republicans said for decades. Many people don't even know that Hitler declared war on the US and it was only after that the US reluctantly declared war on Germany. How can you make any money in the stock market with that kind of analysis of events? Fanatic Republicans prefer the shares of the glorious USA companies, especially those that are not global in their outlook. And they will vote for Bush and/or his copycat Democrats. That will of course bring closer the era of garbage dollars.

To: Slagle who wrote (17095)	4/15/2007 2:07:19 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217981

<<Maybe nearly as bad was the lack of a properly trained Chinese military leadership>> ... you mean the same guys schooled on sun tze's thoughts and mao's whispers and fought usa + all to a standstill in the frozen mountains of korea and downed countless usa planes over the jungles in se asia with nothing more than very ordinary tools and implements, against atomic and aircraft carrier armed might? read your history about the volunteers on the two fronts, starting with the hints in "the pentagon papers". the reason the japanese were able to do what they did was because they interrupted a civil war where neither side could risk taking out the japanese only to lose to the opposition in the civil war ... losing to the japanese was a temporary state of affairs, whereas losing to the counterparty in the civil war was for all eternity. history is simple.