Skysthelimit [none/use name]
Really? I haven’t heard that one. I didn’t think they had any plan to take Hawaii, even if they had won at Midway. Their objective was to destroy the American fleet and then make peace from a position of strength.
At any rate, Oahu was swarming with American troops and there was no way the Japanese could have taken it. They would have had to dedicate every cargo ship in their fleet to carry supplies and men, and those were needed to take oil from the southern resource area to the homeland. You know, the whole reason they started the war in the first place.
Murder is killing of humans. And yes, if you’re going to eat meat, I think you should be forced to kill it yourself. Buying packages from the grocery store in nice styrofoam packages takes all the blood and tendons out of it. When you aim and shoot an animal, and then have to butcher it yourself, getting blood caked all over your hands and accidentally cutting open an intestine and smelling a truck stop bathroom in August, you understand what meat actually means. I think it would be really good for vegetarianism, frankly.
Most urban people have no idea where food comes from. It just magically appears at the store and they have no idea the effort it took to get there and no desire to investigate. For people who pride themselves on intellectual curiosity it’s one area where their curiosity disappears. Indeed, farmers are looked down upon as people of the soil, an outdated concept we moved on from as a society long ago.
That was actually a good thing for the British people. They stopped dying in foreign wars that never benefited them, and the government was forced to work on internal development instead.
America was never meant to be a world leader. We’ve done an awful job at it. Better to leave the job to those better qualified. If the US government was cut off from their wonderfully stimulating endless foreign wars, the result can only be positive for Americans.
Yeah, the US unelected government at State and the Pentagon are furious someone took away their war. Just livid. They thought they had that stitched up for life. You can find speeches where diplomats and generals calmly inform us we’ll be in Afghanistan for the next 50-75 years and we just need to get used to the idea.
This is typically what happens when there is a senile ruler (or a child). There are constant behind the scenes palace intrigues that don’t make any sense unless you are one of the few who understands what’s really going on. From the outside it will appear disjointed and contradictory.
Unnecessarily inflammatory. This is why veganism has such a bad reputation, the moral grandstanding. You could have a lot more friends and get the message across better, but you don’t want to. Why? It just feels good to sit high atop Mount Olympus and piss on the plebians for having the temerity to disagree with what you’ve already decided for them.