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History Forum / General / British History / August 2007Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Elimination -- 1943
Indeed. Imagine the outcry if it had later been revealed that FDR and the responsible generals and admirals had the chance to kill Admiral Yamamoto and flinched. Similarly, if Truman had flinched and not used the atomic bombs ready for him in 1945 that would have been unforgivable. In Wartime we must give our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines every possible advantage and that means killing or capturing the enemy with skill and dispatch. DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas "The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:f8d7d3569aqj31utudnb1cm4ihacrj9jhe@4ax.com... > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:11:22 GMT, "Conway Caine" > <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >>Frankly there was something ungentlemanly in the way it was handled. >>Yamaoto's [sic] plane was unescorted and had no way to defend itself. >>He was a sitting duck. >>An execution, I calls it. Nonsense. Even grossly factually incorrect -- as well as lamely bleeding-heart emotional trash. > Would you have felt the same way if the passenger had been Adolf > Hitler? Yamamoto was the best the Japanese had. Would you rather he > has escaped to kill more American and British troops? > > Yamamoto was a man with superbly honed military instincts. He would > have dismissed your qualms as weakness; he would not have hesitated to > eliminate Admiral Chester Nimitz, and neither would I. There is no > place for sentiment when men's lives and the possibility of defeat are > involved. > > The Highlander > Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan, > togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus > toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan! Indeed. Imagine the outcry if it had later been revealed that FDR and the responsible generals and admirals had the chance to kill Admiral Yamamoto and flinched. Similarly, if Truman had flinched and not used the atomic bombs ready for him in 1945 that would have been unforgivable. In Wartime we must give our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines every possible advantage and that means killing or capturing the enemy with skill and dispatch. P.S. Admiral Yamamoto's mediaeval genealogy is quite fascinating. [His birth name was Isoroku Takano.] DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:11:22 GMT, "Conway Caine" > <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >>Frankly there was something ungentlemanly in the way it was handled. >>Yamaoto's [sic] plane was unescorted and had no way to defend itself. >>He was a sitting duck. >>An execution, I calls it. Nonsense. Even grossly factually incorrect -- as well as lamely bleeding-heart emotional trash. > Would you have felt the same way if the passenger had been Adolf > Hitler? Yamamoto was the best the Japanese had. Would you rather he [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus > toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan! |
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