Pearl Harbor, JFK Assn, 9/11

[ginscpy]

Which of these national disastors for America will go down in history as having the greatest impact?

My ranking: 9/11, JFK Assn, Pearl Harbor.

Reasons: 9/11 turned us into a paranoid nation. All out of porportion to the actual damage inflicted. 3000 casualties in no great shakes in historical terms.

JFK Assn ended thera era of innocence. The 1950s ended that day.

Pearl Harbor - USA would have entered World War 2 sooner or later anyway. Really didnt change anything.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Pearl. If not for WWII we wouldn't have had a 911.

 

[ginscpy]

I wasn't born yet during PH - was 10 during JFK assn.

Can't help but wonder - if not for PH - when the USA would have finally become militarily involved in WW2.

 

[Tom Clancy]

Pearl. If not for WWII we wouldn't have had a 911.

lolwut?

 

[Dick Tuck]

Which of these national disastors for America will go down in history as having the greatest impact?

My ranking: 9/11, JFK Assn, Pearl Harbor.

Reasons: 9/11 turned us into a paranoid nation. All out of porportion to the actual damage inflicted. 3000 casualties in no great shakes in historical terms.

JFK Assn ended thera era of innocence. The 1950s ended that day.

Pearl Harbor - USA would have entered World War 2 sooner or later anyway. Really didnt change anything.

Pearl Harbor, and the fact that Germany declared war against the US two days later. It gave Roosevelt the political cover to go against his campaign pledge of staying out of the European war, which was a righteous war to involve ourselves. Britain was certainly strong enough to avoid invasion, but not strong enough to launch an offensive war against the Nazis. If the US were not to engage in that war, the entire world would be very different, and in a negative way. We'd be either a more fascist word, or a more communist world. I believe that Russia would have defeated Hitler, after Stalingrad.

9/11 certainly gave us pause to look at the amount of damage some chump change, in the hands of lunatics could cause. We've still yet to see what Bush's cowboyism in Iraq will cost us, but it certainly changed the power equation of the Middle East. On one hand we made Iran the 500 lb gorilla on the block, and on the other hand we alienated and radicalized the moderate element in that country. Long term it could be seen as brilliance or bone headed stupidity.

JFK's murder wound up giving us the opportunity to outlaw American apartheid. I suspect that we'd still be about 30 years behind, had not the outpouring of sympathy enabled Johnson to push through the 1964 civil rights laws.

 

[psikeyhackr]

9/11 will become the greatest event in psychohistory.

Psychohistory - Asimov

The nation that put men on the Moon can't apply grade school Newtonian physics to airliners hitting skyscrapers.

There was nothing about Pearl Harbor that defied the laws of physics. What would happen if most of the world truly understood the the US went into Iraq and Afghanistan over a lie is unknowable.

The Empire State Building was completed 70 years before the WTC was destroyed but the US can't tell the world the tons of steel and tons of concrete that were on every level of the towers. Didn't they have to figure that out to make them hold themselves up? So how can anyone claim a scientific study was done without data that simple.

Duh, what is the conservation of momentum?

So how do we teach Newtonian physics for the next 1000 years?

Of course after NINE YEARS how many people would have to admit they were stupid if they now say airliners could not do it?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YRUso7Nf3s]YouTube - 9/11 Experiments: The Arbitrator of Competing Hypotheses[/ame]

psik

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Pearl.

It was the ultimate victory for USSR's infiltration of the US and Japanese governments. Instead of working with Hitler and doing everything to keep the US out of the war, the Japanese attack at Pearl was strategically totally unnecessary, served no military purpose and only secured the long term victory for the USSR.

Had the Japanese been able to capture Hawaii, OK, maybe that's different. But that was never even the plan. So seriously what the fuck was the purpose? Yamamoto was 100% correct. Sticking a finger in the US eye at a time when may Americans had no interest in the war was not clever at all and the only reason the Japanese did it was on advise of Communists working in the Japanese government.

 

[regent]

The Japanese knew they could not defeat the US, but their strategy was to capture as much earth as possible and make the Americans pay such a high price in trying to recapture in casualties the US would negotiate a peace plan. In the negoated Japan would end up with areas with needed resources.

 

[whitehall]

JFK "an era of innocence"? Surely you jest. Why do people still imagine JFK as some sort of Camelot figure? The JFK assassination was a tragedy but the Kennedys were hardly a Brady family symbol of 50's innocence. In fact JFK was a depraved womanizer who associated with organized crime figures and he may have been addicted to pain killers for chronic back pain by a Dr. feelgood. His illegal raising of a little CIA trained invasion army and abandoning them at the Bay of Pigs and his inept leadership led the U.S. into "Devcon 2" for the only time in history. Pearl Harbor was the most crucial event in history. It led to the U.S. involvement in WW2 and the ultimate deaths of tens of millions of civilians throughout the world.

 

[Picaro]

Obviously Pearl Harbor is the best answer of the three. It brought home to most of America the hazards and increasing necessity of exerting power beyond its borders in a world growing increasingly smaller and smaller, and 'neutrality' was a fantasy that couldn't stand any longer. It started an American hegemony that has lasted over 70 years of relative peace, over an historical period that would either have kept generating world wars every decade, or created a far worse hegemonic power to fill the vacuum, despite all the fashionable pop sociology and neurotic sniveling going on today by the assorted wing nuts on the left and the right.

The JFK assassination didn't really do much to change anything, outside of the shock it may have caused to Suburbanites and their sensibilities. I agree that the Camelot Myth is a little ridiculous and the JFK has been grossly over-rated by the family's PR machine.

9/11 is just another case of some foreign fanatics provoking what one Japanese Admiral referred to as 'awakening a sleeping giant' again; it is in no way comparable to Pearl Harbor, however, as the U.S. already had allies and bases overseas, and it required nothing in the way of developing capabilities we didn't already have, which of course is a direct result of Pearl.

 

[gipper]

Pearl Harbor...false flag set up by FDR...much like Ft Sumter, USS Maine, Lusitania, Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq's WMDs...and now expect the same in Ukraine, Syria, or somewhere else.

JFK...killed by our government.

9/11...retaliation for US government's persistent foreign interventions.

All three the result of unlimited government.

 

[regent]

Which of these national disastors for America will go down in history as having the greatest impact?

My ranking: 9/11, JFK Assn, Pearl Harbor.

Reasons: 9/11 turned us into a paranoid nation. All out of porportion to the actual damage inflicted. 3000 casualties in no great shakes in historical terms.

JFK Assn ended thera era of innocence. The 1950s ended that day.

Pearl Harbor - USA would have entered World War 2 sooner or later anyway. Really didnt change anything.

A better question might be when has America not been a paranoid nation? Was the McCarthy period our most paranoid?

 

[Templicon]

They all work as one whole complex of subversion, step by step. 911 and events to come will be the ones that saw a world war already begun in the "global war" "on terror", that no one noticed the global invasion meaning of.

Whatever it starts GWOT 2.0 + probably Cold War 2.0 heating up, will probably out perform 911, but it is a pre-designed synergy to help usher in world government. The US ceased to exist, in hindsight, the second the Federal Reserve went into existence, in time their "monopoly money" factory would control and literally purchase the US with debt, and the obligatory mass default coming to finish the deal.

 

[regent]

Maybe Karl Marx and the ensuing Russian Revolution?

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Pearl Harbor...false flag set up by FDR...much like Ft Sumter, USS Maine, Lusitania, Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq's WMDs...and now expect the same in Ukraine, Syria, or somewhere else.

JFK...killed by our government.

9/11...retaliation for US government's persistent foreign interventions.

All three the result of unlimited government.

exactly,you nailed it.could not have said it better myself.

They all work as one whole complex of subversion, step by step. 911 and events to come will be the ones that saw a world war already begun in the "global war" "on terror", that no one noticed the global invasion meaning of.

Whatever it starts GWOT 2.0 + probably Cold War 2.0 heating up, will probably out perform 911, but it is a pre-designed synergy to help usher in world government. The US ceased to exist, in hindsight, the second the Federal Reserve went into existence, in time their "monopoly money" factory would control and literally purchase the US with debt, and the obligatory mass default coming to finish the deal.

exactly,we became a facist dictatorship on dec 25th 1913 when the federal reserve was created

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Pearl Harbor...false flag set up by FDR...much like Ft Sumter, USS Maine, Lusitania, Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq's WMDs...and now expect the same in Ukraine, Syria, or somewhere else.

JFK...killed by our government.

9/11...retaliation for US government's persistent foreign interventions.

All three the result of unlimited government.

exactly,you nailed it.Best damn post on this thread.could not have said it better myself.



Up until 9/11 happened,the JFK assassination was the most tragic of the three and the reason it was more tragic than pearl harbor which was was a terrible thing to happen of course,is because JFK was our last real president we had who wasn't a puppet for the establishment.

He was trying to return us to the constitution of the united states where the people had control over the government instead of the bankers and the corporations that do now.

I maintain his assassination was worse than pearl harbor because he was trying to clean up government corruption.His speech he made where he said the word secrecy is repugnant is what got him killed by our government. Imiagine having a government that is open and honest with its people? gee what an idea.

Had he lived and been reelected,there never would have been a Vietnam war and the CIA which has heavy influence on world events around the country such as 9/11 would never have happened because he was taking steps to get rid of the CIA and the fed as well. The CIA and the fed are the two organizations that are responsible for the world being in the mess that it is today so his assassination still affects our daily lives and the lives of people around the world to this day.

9/11 happened thanks to JFK being assassinated because all these evil organizations such as the CIA,the fed and the FBI would not be around today to do their evil doings had he lived and served a second term.

americans don't get it but world war three started when 9/11 happened .9/11 changed out course of history as a nation far worse than pearl harbor ever did.