At least that would have been greater punishment than GWB has
administered to Osama bin Laden.
bs
WILLIAM B LAWRENCE wrote:
> But the Imperial Japanese Army didn't have anything to do with Pearl
> Harbor. We should have sent FBI agents to Tokyo and demanded that
> Yamamoto be handed over. All it takes is a little diplomacy, Right?
> Then we could have spent years haggling over where and how to try him,
> whether he had rights under Geneva even though Japan never signed,
> whether it would damage our national soul or "standing in the world"
> if we executed him etc. In the end we would have settled on us as the
> root cause of his rage and acquitted him so he could come back and do
> it again. We would have paid reparations to...uh...somebody,
> apologized to the Emperor's mistress and ended up driving Japanese
> cars....Oh wait!
>
> Bill Lawrence
>
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'67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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