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Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Michelle Malkin has a number of links, including this to her column featuring a very interesting incident I had known nothing about before: The Turncoats on Niihau Island.

For a take-down of the latest Chomsky other-worldiness claiming Pearl Harbor as justified under current doctrines of "preventive war," don't miss this Frontpage piece: Chomsky on Pearl Harbor

If your one of those people, like me, who absolutely can't stand the revisionist attempts to make us into the moral equivalents of our enemies of those days, do consider reading Downfall : The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard Frank. This is a scholarly (but readable) explanation of the final days of the empire and the reasons for the dropping of the bombs. If you want the answers to all those questions of "Weren't the Japanese about to surrender anyway?" "What were the casualty estimates for invasion?" "What did Truman know and when did he know it?" and much more, give this book a try.

Oh, and for a good book on the character on the character of the enemy we faced, try The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang.

Update: Chuck has a link to a page with info on the fate of the Japanese ships involved in the attack. Payback's a bitch.

Tigerhawk points to this multimedia page at National Geographic.

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2 Comments

Malkin's book,

In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror

(I leave the link for your click through)

is an amazing read... I was disappointed when half way through I hit the footnotes.

Making it all too short a reference.

I have Mrs Malkin's book too, but haven't read it yet.

Our enemies today would do well to read about what happened to those Japanese ships; all save one destroyed. Like OBL, the Japanese and Germans were convinced that we had "gone soft", that if we responded at all, we would be no match for their toughness. Talk about miscalculation.

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