Monday, May 20, 2013

Editorial #9 - January 1942 – Can America Survive a War on Two Fronts?




Fellow Citizens,

A world war is upon us.  Our lives will be rent by noise and flame and our souls will shake with the violence of war!  We are marching headlong into a maelstrom of doom.  The Nazis are unstoppable in the East as they devour miles of Soviet soil each day.  The Japanese have delivered a heavy blow to the U.S. who seem to still be a sleeping giant.   They are training their soldiers with carved wooden rifles!  Do they plan on prodding the Germs to death?!  While Great Britain may have stopped the Nazi advance last year, they are hardly in any condition to begin pushing the Nazis back.  The only hope that democracy has is the United States of America.

They are fighting a war that no nation has ever won – a war on two fronts.   Along with this, the two enemies are total opposites yet equally terrifying. 

The Germans – Under the control of General Erwin Rommel hold everything on the west side of Jerusalem from nearly all of Europe to North Africa.  Rommel’s Afrika Korps are a force that cannot possibly be reckoned with.  Their equipment is immaculate!  Tiger Tanks and MG-42s are two weapons that the U.S. cannot match in their arsenal.  The Daily Mirror’s prediction:  America does not hold a candle to the military forces of Germany.

The Japanese – Armed with some of the greatest planes ever manufactured and a fighting spirit unmatched in all of history.  They are entrenched deep in the islands of the Pacific.  For America to beat the Japanese back, they will have to push Japan’s forces from each of these tiny islands throughout the Pacific.  How will they do amphibious landings and island invasions that have never been attempted?  How will they counter an enemy deeply dug into each island?

Fellow citizens, many questions remain unanswered.  America is stuck between a rock and a hard place. 

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