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RE CHINA OUTRAGED JAPAN LAWMAKERS VISIT JAPAN WAR SHRINE

Why shouldn't Japanese visit their own war shrine, in their own country?

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CHINA TO BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN BRITAIN PEACE THROUGH FREE TRADE AND INVESTMENT

Call it ever decreasing leverage, peace, prosperity, or security, everywhere, going forward.

The current dean at BU, a great Cobden ist, as he has to be:
"...Business defines the common language that crosses all country boundaries--it is the best route to global peace and prosperity."

PHILIPPINES SOUTH CHINA SEA PERFECT FOR BI PARTISAN PHILIPPICS DUSTY

Why stay tacit?

Why not go philippic on em?

One reason: lack of ' leverage '.

But, hey, who needs leverage to go philippics?

Has lack of leverage stopped wanton, publicity hungry, American demagogues often, in the past?

American politician: "Lemme atem!"
Dusty: "Hold yur horses, buster, an nobody, ovr here, gits hirt."

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RE DK'S CURRENT POST

"Because the German people believed that submarine warfare could win the war, the government had no choice but to undertake it rather than offer peace." 

I will take a wild guess why, here, before I get real facts, and say that the German free press, possibly influenced by large munitions and industrial interests, had something to do with the German people's erroneous belief.

POSTSCRIPT: See Professor Rudd's much better answer.

RE FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY WWII THE FIRST CHICHELE LECTURE 1957

"Understanding what must follow from the decision of unconditional surrender, and knowing that great troubles lay ahead with Stalin over eastern Europe and the future of Germany, the Western allies should surely have ensured that their forces gained possession of the great political centres of Central Europe before the Russians---notably Berlin, Prague, Vienna. If this had been laid down as the object by Roosevelt and Churchill in January 1943, in my considered view as a soldier, we could have grabbed all three in 1944 before the Russians."

At The Casablanca Conference, where Roosevelt announced unconditional surrender, at Morgenthau's instance and under the influence at that time of Russian agents in Treasury, Stalin did not even have to attend.

As Montgomery noted, it suited his plans to the letter...

Call it: "The Roosevelt Morgenthau" decision, or even more accurately, The Roosevelt Moscow Accord, and its aftermath.

Churchill had to go along, or lose so called allies he could not then do without. 

I say ' so called ' because not only was the USSR clearly planning to absorb as much of Western and eastern Europe and the Middle East as they could, with active US collusion, but they were also colluding simultaneously with Japan re a secret nonaggression pact, enabling Japan's attack on Western and on American targets in Asia, especially Pearl Harbor.

Morgenthau had arranged for Patton's dismissal, with the help of the willing muckraking tool, Drew Pearson.

BRER FOX OBAMA BRER RABBIT GOP BRIAR PATCH NO GOVERNMENT

Brer Fox: "If u don gif up, brer rabbit, Il thro u in at briar pach."

Brer Rabbit: "Ples ples, brer fox, don tro me in at briar pach.
Uu kin burn me, uu kan boil me, yu cun fry me.
But ples don tro me inat briar pach!"

RE CHINA WARNS US DEBT DEAL BLAST FROM THE PAST

WHERE IS BARRY BLITT WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/another-great-cartoon-idea.html

RE NASA BARS CHINA FROM CONFERENCE

Decades late on these issues, and now, mere  political tokenism.

blast from the past someone liked this why shouldn't you

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/andy-martin-socrates-cartoon.html

RE bbc CHINA WARNS US TO AGREE TO DEBT DEAL

You figure it out..........

RE MUGGED BY A MUG SHOT

This kind of degenerate muck raking has always been the beating heart of American freedom of the press and government in the sunshine.

It has meant domination by the press, and by corrupt private firms not in the journalism business, in reality.

ROBIE'S COTE D'AZUR LAIR

http://lestuffblog.com/2009/08/16/to-catch-a-thief-take-2/

NEW US JAPAN MILITARY ALLIANCE

Any port in a storm, once again.

PASSAGES FROM FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY STILL ON THE WAY

RE REUTERS EU CITIZENS RECOILING FROM THE EU

As well they should.

With existing other institutions, now in place, and put in place largely at the urging of the USA, it really amounts to the Asianization of the Western world, going forward, not merely of the USA.

THE OTHER INCALCULABLE BLUNDER BIGGER THAN LOSING WWII TO THE SOVIETS

Was this role below, leading to American style market globalization, quoted in an earlier post from Sir Michael Howard:

"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the  European  Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt.  And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."

I would point out however, regarding Professor Howard's term ' imperial domination ', that the American colonies suffered nothing like imperial domination, really, nothing whatsoever comparable to that of more primitive pre industrial societies at that time.

Reading Bailyn's accounts in Ideological Origins, and The Origins of American Politics, and having been persuaded by Professor Allison's presentations on this topic, nothing like real imperial domination was ever really visited on the American colonists, except in their fevered imaginations.

Granted, they were unrepresented in Parliament, but so also were Birmingham, Sheffield, and I believe Manchester, at that time.....

As Allison pointed out, they were the most lightly burdened people by government impositions in the world, ever, while also being, on the other hand, among the most heavily benefited, I would add, before or since, in all of world history.

The British fought, and won, the Seven Years War, which Washington began, defending the colonies, among many other objectives, against both the French and the Spanish, shortly before the Colonies chose to rebel in gratitude.

RE FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY

The reasons why we lost WWII, politically and militarily, are overwhelmingly the fault of the United States Administration at that time.

Having read Beschloss' book The Conquerors, though with all its shortcomings as an historical account, one can read between the lines so to speak even in that flawed work, and reach the same conclusion.

Montgomery's First Chichele Lecture outlined how this political failure unfolded, in a thumbnail sketch.