On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:57:02 -0700, Gunner Asch <
gunne...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:41:58 -0400, Bill Drit <
bill...@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On 7/24/2012 7:11 AM, Gunner Asch wrote:
>>>
>>> Then the Great Cull will correct a great deal of the issues that
>>> resulted.
>>>
>>> And remove a large..very large number of Leftwingers.
>>>
>>> And about time too.
>>>
>>> Gunner
>>
>>No great cull, good people will just slowly submit to democrats like the
>>frog in the pot being slowly heated. Sad, really. This country is cooked.
>>
>>-Bill
>
>Tojo thought that as well. Yamato though..he read the People clearly.
>
>Unfortunately..Tojo overruled him. And of course..the Japanese paid the
>price...
>
>Gunner
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle
behind every blade of grass." Yamamoto
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with
a terrible resolve." Yamamoto
" Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United
States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even
Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to
march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House.
I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war
are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have
confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the
necessary sacrifices."
As quoted in At Dawn We Slept (1981) by Gordon W. Prange, p. 11;
this quote was stated in a letter to Ryoichi Sasakawa prior to the
attack on Pearl Harbor. Minus the last sentence, it was taken out of
context and interpreted in America as a boast that Japan would conquer
the entire continental United States. The omitted sentence showed
Yamamoto's counsel of caution towards a war that would cost Japan
dearly.
" A military man can scarcely pride himself on having "smitten a
sleeping enemy"; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one
smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the
enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon
launch a determined counterattack."
Reply made to Ogata Taketora, the Editor in Chief of Asahi
Shimbun (9 January 1942) as quoted in The Reluctant Admiral (1979) by
Hiroyuki Agawa
" In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States
and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But
then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of
success."
Statement to Japanese cabinet minister Shigeharu Matsumoto and
Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoe, as quoted in Eagle Against the
Sun: The American War With Japan (1985) by Ronald Spector. This remark
would later prove prophetic; precisely six months after the attack on
Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy would suffer a major defeat at the
Battle of Midway, from which it never recovered.
Im not sure it was a good thing..or an ill considered thing that we
killed Yamamoto. Probably a good thing based on some thinking of the
Code of Boshido that even Yamamoto subscribed to.