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Re: Has Dan Simmons truly lost it or is he just pandering?

From David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: Has Dan Simmons truly lost it or is he just pandering?
Date 2016-07-10 14:17 -0600
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <nluafu$55q$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (5 earlier) <MPG.31eaa494ce7a9fd798a334@news.eternal-september.org> <nltpr2$79h$1@dont-email.me> <MPG.31ec56a5b42d7a9e98a354@news.eternal-september.org> <nlu3cl$ajv$1@dont-email.me> <MPG.31ec62cdaedee20398a359@news.eternal-september.org>

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On 7/10/2016 12:49 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> In article <nlu3cl$ajv$1@dont-email.me>, Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com
> says...
>>
>> On 7/10/2016 11:57 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
>>> In article <nltpr2$79h$1@dont-email.me>, Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com
>>> says...
>>>>
>>>> On 7/9/2016 5:05 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
>>>>> In article <oA1CoD.5AG@kithrup.com>, goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <MPG.31ea057cdc04b6cb98a32f@news.eternal-september.org>,
>>>>>> J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <oA0C3r.C1s@kithrup.com>, goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu says...
>>>>>>>> the rulers of Pakistan, like all rulers everywhere, want to get and
>>>>>>>> hold power.  And because they are not idiots, they know that if terrorists
>>>>>>>> explode a nuke and the world even *thinks* they got it from Pakistan,
>>>>>>>> they lose everything.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And what happens if the current rulers are overthrown?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See above.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see anything "above" that suggests that the Caliphate agrees
>>>>> with you on the matter of how to "get and hold power".
>>>>>
>>>>> If "getting and holding power" led to rational decisions, Hitler would
>>>>> never have gone into Russia
>>>>
>>>> Germany's chances against Russia were quite respectable, had the United
>>>> States not come to Russia's aid.
>>>
>>> That's the American view.  What's the Russian view?
>>
>> That it was an extremely tough fight for them.
>>
>>>
>>>> and Japan would never have bombed Pearl
>>>>> Harbor.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Japan was actually repeating the same thing that it did in the
>>>> Russo-Japanese war with great success.
>>>
>>> Yeah, right, the Japanese sank the Russian Pacific fleet in port with an
>>> air attack.
>>>
>>
>> Not "with an air attack" but they did sink it in port.
>
> And it did not deter the Russians from continuing the war.

But afterward when the 2nd Pacific Squadron was also wiped out, that did 
the trick.  The Japanese won. Now admittedly even if the Japanese had 
won at Midway, the Americans would have just built a third and bigger 
fleet and won with that, but based on Japan's experience to that point, 
such a war was winnable and if lost, they'd be able to offer up some 
concessions in return for a negotiated peace.  The American reaction to 
being attacked was actually pretty atypical.



Yamamoto
> knew what was going to happen, he told them, they ignored him.
>
>
>
>

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