Warfare

Thoughts on Nagasaki Day

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My mother served as a WAC — Women’s Army Corps — in General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo during the Korean War, and she came to know the Japanese people, inasmuch as that was possible for a white woman who didn’t speak Japanese, in the early 1950s. She met and married my father there, so …

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If you are not calling on Hamas to surrender and release the hostages, your cries about people suffering in Gaza are worthless.

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Armand Domalewski describes himself, in his Twitter biography, as a “Data scientist” living in San Francisco, and “Co-Founder, YIMBYs for Harris”. He’s actually followed by several real people I know, so perhaps he’s not an actual Palestinian bot, like so many of the other pro-Hamas posters on social media, but in this, he might as …

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For the People of Gaza to Receive Any Aid, They Must Repudiate Hamas and Surrender

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The current ‘Palestinian’ sympathizer meme on Twitter — as always, I refuse to call it 𝕏, the absolute worst rebranding in history — is that the poor, poor Palestinian children, children! are starving. A gentleman calling himself Dr Mohammed al Najjar tweeted:

Doctors in Gaza collapse in operating rooms from hunger.
Ambulance drivers can’t drive, their stomachs empty.
A hungry doctor treats a hungry patient brought by a hungry driver.
To the free people of the world: Say ENOUGH to this starvation

It’s not just Dr Najjar — assuming he’s a real person and not just another pro-terrorist bot — but many others appearing in my feeds.

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Moment Charnière

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The French have a term to depict, to designate, a hinge moment – a turning point in history: Moment Charnière. Some such decisive/earth-shattering incidents that come to mind: Bestowing the Ten Commandments, the birth of Jesus, and more recently the dropping of atomic bombs that decimated Japanese cities.

Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran?

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Former Ambassador John Bolton seems to have never met a war in which he didn’t want the United States involved, but Wikipedia noted his opinions during the War in Vietnam: Bolton was a supporter of the Vietnam War, but avoided combat through a student deferment followed by enlistment in the Maryland Air National Guard. During …

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