Christopher Bedford of the Federalist focuses on the positive role of the British Empire. Hong Kong and Singapore; India and Pakistan; Egypt and South Africa; Australia and New Zealand; Canada…
George Leef writes for the Martin Center about higher education and the threat of fascism. In a recent essay published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale philosophy professor Jason…
Jim Geraghty muses at National Review Online about President Obama’s long-running dismissive attitude toward ISIS. “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a…
As we approach the 75th anniversary of the “date which will live in infamy,” Victor Davis Hanson offers some observations at National Review Online. President Obama is visiting Hiroshima this…
My mom never failed to remark every Dec. 7 morning at the breakfast table what happened on that date in 1941. It was one of those dates, like Nov. 22…
Day of infamy. Click on the pages below to get readable versions. Why did the Japanese hate us so?
Not exactly, Roy. The Soviets were not inclined to listen to the Japanese either. To cite another quote: “More important, since June 8 Ambassador Sato in Moscow had been retelling…
The quote Joe cites does show one thing. As of June 1945 the emperor wanted to end the war. He was searching for a way out that would save some…
About the “new history” that Japan wanted to surrender: if that was the case why were the Japanese fighting to the death on the Pacific islands during that same period?…
FJP Veale’s Advance to Barbarism, quote extensively in the essay Hal quotes, is described on Amazon.com as: “Perhaps the most devasting of all the revisionist debunking of the International Military…
Tomorrow is the sixtieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, and while I will continue to carry my veteran status with pride and uphold the righteous projection of American power…