Admiral Yamamoto observed correctly after Pearl Harbor that he feared all they had accomplished was to wake a sleeping giant.
Rick Santelli's televised call for a "Tea Party" may have been THIS centuries shot heard around the world...a shot that has woken a sleeping giant, the American TAXPAYER.
We'll soon see if the American POLITICIAN is as perceptive as the Admiral was and can recognize the sentiment: LIBERTY not DEBT!!!
Team Obama had better pay attention.....
Monday, 16 March 2009
Waking the Giant.........by Rico
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Admiral Yamamoto is also claimed to have said the reason the Japanese shouldn't consider invading the mainland US is because "...there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass".
Barry would be wise to remember these words.
Not to put too fine a point on it America HAD to have Pearl Harbor before they got invloved, the rest of us were at for a year and half before they got bombed into the fight.
I don't think they've had their Pearl Harbor over Obama yet.
But he's happy to import Parkistanis without citizenship requirement anf turn loose all the terrorists he has in hand so I'm confidant they'll be happy to deliver it for him shortly.
A couple of the reasons the US didn't jump early into the fight in what became WW2 are:
Europeans were always going to war against each other. It was a habit.
Also, slaughter on barbaric scales in asia were as common as bar room brawls at the Boston Harbor area in those times.
One really big lesson we should have taken away from that war is about allies.
Japan was an ally in WW1 and as such got way too much slack during the '20s and early '30s.
Also another lesson that should have been learned about allies who only join up to help themselves, as in the Soviets.
You'd think we'd have learned to cut the dead weight loose with a quickness by now and to remember that "ally" is something earned event to event and has zero meaning between events.
None of the above is aimed in any derogatory way at the UK or other of our true allies who are spending blood and treasure to help fight back against the horde in this current event, btw.
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