Dec 7th was “slightly” remembered this w=
eek, but we are witnessing past lessons LOST as some of the most ludicrous =
marches and gatherings in the US, calling for “peace” and ̶=
0;no response” to the most evil outrage against innocents in recent d=
ecades,
Imagine December 8th, 1941. After years of ̶=
0;ceasefire” (since 1918 after the carnage of a world war), American =
citizens saw our friends attacked across Europe by Nazi troops and now coul=
d not ignore the horrific warmongering and expansion of Imperial Japa in Ko=
rea, Manchuria, and China, as attacks came to US. They had broken the=
20-year ceasefire and had maliciously and deliberately attacked America. T=
hey had not aimed at unarmed citizens at a dance or peacefully at home, but=
their action and intent at Pearl Harbor was clear.
America knew th=
at to deliver our people from such further aggression and attack on Long Be=
ach or San Francisco, we needed to DESTROY the enemy that carried out this =
atrocity and save us from further wanton murder. What did America do? =
It was a planned total devastation of the enemy, where they lived, where t=
hey hid, where they planned and then delivered their deadly attacks. =
We se=
nt bombers not just to bomb enemy troops or ships, but to obliterate their =
arsenals of weapons, cities, factories, defenses. Bombers crushing an=
enemy people. My father and father-in-law served in the Army Air Cor=
ps, both training crews and rescue boats. Dad went to the Philippines to br=
ing the battle to the enemy. My mother and my aunts worked tirelessly at th=
e Arsenal near our home in Minneapolis to produce bombs or belt machine-gun=
bullets for our fighters to attack.
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bsp;
When Jimmy Doolittle led a small raid only 3=
0-seconds over Tokyo, the people rejoiced. Reaction of bombing Berlin, Toky=
o, Hamburg, or Naples meant loss of innocent civilians for sure, but the pr=
ice of destruction of the enemy’s ability to continue their atrocitie=
s was being paid.
Fast forward to today. As recent as October 6=
th there was a robust and enduring ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas used that=
time to stockpile weapons for more attacks on civilians and build tunnels =
under hospitals, schools, and mosques to use as shields from retaliatory de=
fensive acts by Israel. At their own timetable, Hamas brought that ceasefir=
e to a monstrous end, cowardly butchering, raping, and murder of civilian w=
omen, men, boys, girls, and even infants.
Just like our response to Japan 82 y=
ears ago, two months ago Hamas opened hostilities on the innocents. Now, it=
falls on Israel to end them, by destroying Hamas’s ability to contem=
plate or deliver any similar attack in the future. Carrying out that task i=
s inevitably an enterprise of horrifying violence and all hate to see more =
death. But it happened to the civilians in Germany, Italy, and Japan becaus=
e of what their leaders started. It is happening again so that the horrifyi=
ng and vile actions cannot be repeated.
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Dr Bob Griffin
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[email protected] www.grif.net
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"=