Who will be our Modern Day Doolittle

It is spring, 1942. There has been a string of losses and unmitigated disasters against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, who now control almost everything in the Pacific outside of Australia and New Zealand, from near the border of India to Indonesia to some of the Alaskan Aleutian islands. The Brits have just lost their main battleships the Repulse and the Prince of Wales a few months earlier, a number of US carriers have been lost, and Wake Island – which is really an extension of the Hawaii islands in many ways - has been taken, despite a heroic defense by US Marines.

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Does this perhaps remind you of today, with a similar string of losses to the crony bankers (think 2008 bailout or the bail-in legislation being passed in many jurisdictions now, or Obama accomplice Jon “Sorry, I lost your $1.6 billion dollars” Corzine), the Alinksy/Frankfurt School/Fabian socialists and their unmitigated hubris? Or perhaps you may be reminded of the de facto ownership of the lamestream media by the radical left (think Richard Salant, former president of CBS News stating “Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have”), or the education system being almost totally controlled by today’s Common Core Comrades (in the US, with similar initiatives around the world), in league with their post-secondary Bolshevik buddies in the PC thought & speech police patrolling university campuses. Or my favorite oppressors, the radical homosexual Nazi Brownshirts and their judicial Kristallnachts against mom and pop bakeries, florists and photographers. I needn’t go on: the story is all too familiar to the informed reader. But, back to 1942 and that string of earlier losses. Although most of America and the West is so dumbed down they have no idea who George Washington is, and think that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife, a few of you just may remember Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo during that historical period when the West had enough losses in train to make last year’s NFL’s Cleveland Browns look good by comparison. For those that actually do know about the raid, what did it accomplish? All historians agree, it caused “negligible damage.” Perhaps many of you feel this is quite similar today to our emails, blogs and letters to the editor… “negligible damage” to anything significant. But one thing you may not know: Doolittle’s attack – little more than a minor pinprick, if even that, and conducted in the bitter dark days of defeat - led to the understanding by the Japanese militarists that the Emperor could in no way ever be at any risk again, under any circumstances, and this attack caused them to pull back some of their forces to protect against any further possible attacks. In fact, enough Japanese forces were held back that the US was able to hold its own at the Battle of the Coral Sea, then go on the offensive at Guadalcanal, and finally achieve a stunning victory at Midway.

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So… what does this have to do with us bloggers today? Exactly this: By creativity, inventiveness stick-to-it-ivness, courage (Doolittle thought he would be court-martialed if he lost all his planes), ingenuity and belief in the rightness of their cause, Doolittle started an unanticipated reaction that began the first of a thousand later steps that led to the defeat of the forces of the Japanese militarists. A similar story could be told about the RAF pilots during the Battle of Britain, which stemmed the onrushing side of the NationalSocialists in Germany, allowing the side of truth and justice to get up off the mat at the count of nine, and finally fight through to victory. It was, as Churchill said about his RAF boys (and could be said of Doolittle’s flyers) “their finest hour.” I don’t know who the Doolittle against the leftist forces of oppression will be today. But it will be someone. And while it may not be me, I hope this letter is at least the equivalent of the person who was turning the screws to build Doolittle’s B-25s in the factory. One know one thing: That day where the forces of Mordor fall will come. Our ideas are simply better than theirs, and the side of darkness – as was the case in Nazi Germany – seems to only be held in place by a patch work of oppression, judicial farce (sorry, Bill and Hillary, but the rest of us do know what the meaning of “is” is) and outright lies (ClimateGate, anyone?). Our finest hours will be found among you that don’t give up when all seems to be lost. May God grant me the courage to be one of these people.

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