My intent is to draw your thoughts into a comparison of the Japanese in
WWII to the Confederacy in the Civil War. If you played WWII with civil war
soldiers, who would be who? Notice, that in your reply, you do not consider
that the Japanese attacked a region which was not a southern state. Hawaii
was not even a state at the time. Yet, we do consider it an attack on the
US - an attack on Yanks!

Acting as a nation, the US laid Japan low in the bombings of their cities.
Not too different from Sherman's march except that the effect took longer
to work. Today, the US welcomes electronics and other products from
Japanese manufacturers. I wonder if the Japanese harbor the same legends of
their "greatness" as the confederates do more than a hundred years after
their defeat?

                                 Anne

At 07:35 PM 2/20/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Are you suggesting that the Japanese didn't attack the US at Pearl Harbor, or
>invade a US territory?  Are you suggesting that the Japanese attack, if
>that's what you consider it to be, was justified?
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