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Bruce[_28_]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:34:37 -0400, wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:10:06 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>
>>On 2018-12-12 11:47 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 5:40:19 PM UTC-10, Leonard
>>> Blaisdell wrote:
>>>> In article
>>>> >, dsi1
>>>> <dsi1> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You got that right sista! The native Hawaiians dream of
>>>>> sovereignty. You can use their song if you like.
>>>>
>>>> I would love to give you back to the Great Pacific. I fear that
>>>> sovereignty wouldn't last long. Greedy eyes to the west of you
>>>> would soon take care of that. It is unfortunate that your islands
>>>> are about as strategic as land gets.
>>>>
>>>> leo
>>>
>>> It is a question to ponder - what would have happened if Hawaii had
>>> not be stolen from the people. My guess is that we would have been a
>>> neutral country during WWII. The US would have fought only in the
>>> European theater, the allies would have prevailed and Japan would
>>> control a big chunk of Asia. You could say that the overthrow of
>>> Hawaii stopped Japanese expansionism. Or maybe not.
>>
>>There is a good chance that it would have been colonized by another
>>country. While it would not have been American territory at the start
>>of WWII the attack on Pearl Harbor was part of a plane that saw the
>>Japanese sweep across the Pacific. They likely would have taken Hawaii
>>and the US, having no strong base in the Pacific, might not have had the
>>means to fight them. While the experience with Americans was not great,
>>the Japanese treated the people of conquered lands much worse.
>>
>>
>I was witness to the nasty treatment of the Japanese by Occupational
>Forces from the USA immediately after WWII.

My mother was in a Japanese concentration camp. The Japs were
extremely cruel.