Re: USS Liberty 40th anniversary

On Jun 27, 12:18?pm, hillelg...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jun 27, 6:11 am, Mort <getalifeam...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

To save you some time, here's a good example:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panay_incident
The "sound" of incident has a very familiar "ring" to it...

So please explain what was the interest of Japan, in 1937,
to pick a fight with the US.

Remember that afterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident
Japan was in a full scale war against a country with
little industry and a quarter of humanity. What was
the interest of Japan to add an industrial nation
like the US to its enemy list?
Do you really believe that Japan was so
stupid that it could not understand what
the combination of Chinese men power and
US weapons could do?

If you read history about the Panay attack, you'll find that no
substantiated motive was made public, at the time. The attack was
begrudgingly accepted by the USG as a "mistaken" attack -- as claimed
by the Japanese. Of course, after the attack on PH, it became fairly
clear that Japan was itch'n to start a fight with America, and the
Panay attack was simply a means to test America's commitment to
defending its interests in China. The American's blinked (as they
often seem to do) and the Japanese continued with their invasion of
China.

Here's another interesting website that gives a bit more history and
several movies of the actual attack on the Panay:
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/panay.html

Also, NSA has released a decoded Japanese message involved with the
incident. You can find it at the National Archives or at the Navy
Department Library ( http://www.history.navy.mil/library/guides/cryptologic.htm
) ; i.e., it's not on-line. At this point, I don't know its contents.

Mort

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