Text 4610, 51 rader
Skriven 2007-07-17 19:16:52 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
   Kommentar till text 4606 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: FidoNews 24:29 [02/06]: General Articles
================================================
Hello Ward!

18 Jul 07 01:06, you wrote to me:

 RC>> The Hawaii thing didnt happen as horrendously as Wards sentence
 RC>> infers, but US involvement wasnt a glittery bright spot.

 WD> So ... Hawaii was not military occupied to protect US interests, i.e.
 WD> the pineapple business of mr.Dole?

Colonialism is ugly and most western powers werent beauty pageant contestants
in how they went about it.

 WD> Besides, if you question the British presence on the Falklands, then
 WD> what are Americans doing for example on Diego Garcia or Ascension or
 WD> Keflavik ... or Guantanamo?

Diego Garcia is UK, we just jointly operate a base wiffem.

 RC>> The Invasion of those places was supposed to have been a diversion
 RC>> to lure our forces away from Midway and other Pacific Outposts.
 RC>> Fortunately we didnt bite and successfully crushed the core might
 RC>> of Japanese Naval power at Midway, ...

 WD> ... don't forget to add "by sheer luck".

Luck??, the Japanese sailed into that combat theatre thinking it was going to
be a cakewalk, they paid the price.

 RC>> Speaking of ww2, did you ever see the Movie "The Final Countdown"?

 WD> Great movie ... I loved it. Saw it several times ... would've loved
 WD> the Japanese navy being crushed ... :-)

That was the fascination factor the movie possessed, after all a modern carrier
could have taken out the combined Navies of the Axis powers.

Of course on the premise of the movie, if it could really have happened, the
Nimitz would have attacked itself out of ever existing.

The time travel effect, if you could travel back in time and lets say prevent
your grandfather from meeting your grandmother, or even killing him, how could
you have done so, since you wouldnt exist to be able to do so?

==
Ross
Fidonet Feeds Or Fidonet In Your Newsreader: http://www.easternstar.info
E-mail: ross(at)cassell(dot)us | Blogs/Other Places: http://links.cassell.us
... WORK HARDER! Millions on welfare depend on it.
--- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-30413
 * Origin: The Eastern Star - Spartanburg, SC USA (1:123/456)