Today, December 7, is truly a day that "lives in infamy".
At 8.41AM 69 years ago the Japanese perpetrated a surprise attack on U.S. Naval ports in Pearl Harbor and the nearby Schofield Barracks. The attacks were part of Japan's imperialist strategy to continue expansion in the Pacific, and to place itself in a position of a dominate world power.
Japan is a nation with no natural resources. The nation is one that relies completely on import of materials that are both life-sustaining and sustenance for her industries. As they looked to expand their holdings in the Pacific, their only real threat was the United States of America. Their imperialist strategies proved catastrophic for Japan over the short term. Yet, that very catastrophe provided fuel for economic expansion that has been met or surpassed by only a couple of nations.
Both India and China have surpassed the economic growth of post World War II Japan. Of course, nothing new in that set of information. In fact the downturn of American industry and economic strength (and population booms in those nations) contributes to their world economic dominance and that dominance is ever-increasing.
I am not a student of economics nor am I one who studies the up and down turns in international financial markets. That very level of blissful ignorance probably contributed to a real jaw dropper last evening as I listened to Countdown w/o Keith Olbermann. (Listened: hobby requires concentrated eye to point behavior)
Tax cuts for the wealthy, a done deal....
The following linked video is very long (16 plus minutes) but it is facinitaing in its disgsut. . While most of use saw the video, I have posted it just in case some in the community were watching "The Factor" or CNN or possibly Monday Night Football or whatever. The segment shines revealing light on the extent of US borrowing to support our very financial existence. The video identifies Russia as another nation to which we owe our very existence. Segment guest paint a realistic and, in my opinion, accurate picture of where we are headed via conservative illogical resistance to raising taxes on the nations wealthy.
If you have not watched the segment, you may have missed an alarming perspective on a problem that is now being pushed to the level of insane. I believe that one commentator attempts to place a positive spin on the accomplishments of the administration.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was part of Japan's imperialist strategies in the late 1930's to the mid 1940's.
I believe it obvious that the nation is traveling down a path that places our security at even greater risk. Overwhelming debt to China, India and Russia coupled with our dependence on Oil Imports and financial backing from the Saudis contribute to life that is truly untenable.
As we work our way through December 7, I am finding it absolutely horrifying that our political and depressed financial environments contribute as much to our potential demise as Japan directing the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Schofield Barrakcs. In fact, the potential demise is even greater when one's factors in the proliferation of nuclear weapons and increasingly stretched financial flexibility.
Even rubber bands eventually break.