EEE-LECTURE ON AMERICA
(C'est comme un rosebud dans un cinéma, la bonne ou mauvaise.)
Last night after viewing the late-night TV news program I had to kill one cockroach with a spray, prepared for this possibly-once-a-year action, to go to bed.
And before waking up this rainy and cloudy Saturday morning, I had a dream in which I was talking with the US President.
SECTION I: WHAT A HISTORY, THE AMERICAN HISTORY
As I once wrote on Feb 2, 2008, the history of the U.S. began when Little Turtle stopped to fight against George Washington in 1794 to sign the Treaty of Greenville that admitted that Native Americans were an entity the US Government should deal with in a diplomatic manner between two sovereigns, though its main function was to open a path to the West, namely beyond the Ohio River, for George Washington and other aggressors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Turtle
Since then, European Americans drove Native Americans to barren lands; forced African Americans to work as slaves till they died; fought British and Spanish as well as Mexicans to secure or expand territory; annexed Hawaii; purchased Alaska; and colonized the Philippines.
But, as the Empire of Japan had no will to destroy America through the Pacific War as much as possible even if the War should have resulted in stabbing each other to death, the U.S. won this greatest War it had ever fought in a full scale even with a horrible weapon, the nuclear or atomic bomb.
But, the U.S. had to carry out wars against -
(i) North Koreans and Chinese the Empire of Japan had so long controlled, managed, and tried to subjugate,
(ii) North Vietnamese the Empire of Japan had saved from France and controlled after Nazi Germany had launched WWII, and
(iii) Russians the Empire of Japan had been so long emulating to stop them from invading East Asia.
It is because the God Almighty wished that Japanese should adopt the Christian-ideal-based Constitution (with a help of Americans after the defeat in WWII) and the U.S. should be, in lieu of samurai-spirited Japanese, in charge of dealing with Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese and other Marxist East Asians, and Russians.
Remarkably, Americans fulfilled the wish of the God Almighty, and Japan still keeps its Constitution as it was first enacted on May 3, 1947.
The God Almighty put an end to this American history by having the U.S. lost in the Vietnam War, though Vietnam broke up with China to save Cambodian people from a holocaust being carried out by Chinese-communist-brainwashed Khmer Rouge, which really stopped Chinese Communist invasion of South East Asia whose people began to learn from the unbelievable recovery and success of democratic Japan after WWII.
Thereafter, until the fall of the Berlin Wall and Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iraq, the history stood still for Americans at large.
SECTION II: NEW FRONTIERS FOR THE U.S.
Every historian admits that the U.S. changed since the Civil War. Even it is said that before the Civil War the word, “the United States,” had been used in the plural form, but in the single form after the War.
As 600,000 European Americans died in the Civil War, emancipated African Americans have never revolted and tried to retaliate against European Americans with weapons thereafter, which the God Almighty so wishes.
Every historian should admit that Americans turned to be further materialistic rather than Christian through the Great Depression in 1929, the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1945, the JFK Assassination in 1963, and the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Indeed, everything was prepared; and here came the 9/11 Terror in 2001.
(I, personally, wonder if the God Almighty had, only for the moment on the Sept. 11, 2001, Columbus encounter a book Marco Polo had written on China (under the Mongolian dynasty built by Genghis Khan) and Japan 200 years before, so as to make him reach the New Continent though Columbus tried to land on Japan, the country of gold as Marco Polo had so depicted.)
The last destiny given to the U.S. is to save the world from the energy crisis.
But, in a peaceful and Christian manner by sacrificing rich resources it has on its vast land and in its dynamic territory and economy or with the most advanced military systems to control Islamic governments in oil-producing regions?
Is the last destiny of the U.S. going to be fulfilled by its helping poor and suppressed Muslims and Arabs, suffering under oil-rich royal families and dominant classes, and introducing democracy to those Islamic nations?
Or, will simply material-desire-driven policies and wars of the U.S Government make Americans fail in this great test of the history titled the “War on Terror” and “Peak Oil” or otherwise “CO2.”
If so, it will be a decisive catastrophe of mankind.
If not, there will be the 22nd century for mankind, namely our descendants, so prosperous with more advanced science and technology that should make dreams of US scientists of today to expand frontiers to the moon, the Mars, and far beyond to the Galaxy…
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That is all for today, Ladies and Gentlemen.
But, have you ever used a compliment, “the beauty of the Galaxy?”
Again, look at the rising earth over the horizon of the moon a moon explorer launched by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency recently took:
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/04/20080411_kaguya_j.html
Truly, the earth is “the beauty of the Galaxy,” if you have any such a woman in your vicinity.
The U.S. nuclear weapons should not destroy it.
(Mr. Katsuya Okada, one of leaders of the Democratic Party of Japan, recently enjoyed the movie “Lions for Lambs” in a film theater in Tokyo, and is now going to fly to Germany to study their efforts against global warming in these consecutive holidays.
( http://katsuya.weblogs.jp/blog/2008/05/post-f7d1.html )
Indeed, in these consecutive holidays, most of Tokyo residents left the city for home provinces or leisure trips abroad or domestic.
So, it is a good season to enjoy driving around in Tokyo.
I will go to a certain prominent Shinto shrine in Tokyo, but there are two prominent shrines: the Meiji Shrine and the Yasukuni Shrine, though both are relatively young shrines; and I have no personal connection of whatever sort to the latter.
On the Sunday morning I may be sending a salute before a certain shrine, since the Emperor Showa once respectfully bothered to visit the battleship Musashi, the largest warship mankind has ever built but sank while fighting a hundred of US fighter planes during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, though the Pacifi Ocean is somewhat observed from a moon orbit now…)
Pro 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Pro 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
[Indeed, last night a Japanese knowledgeable community on the Internet talked about the death of the so called DC Madam.
But, a miracle is more apparent in a car accident in Bolivia:
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Latest Update: 05.02.08, 17:21 / Israel News
Five Israeli hikers and six Japanese tourists were killed Thursday night in a car accident in Bolivia's Salt Desert.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3538666,00.html
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Though this is not what I talked about with the US President in my dream last night, you may like to check the following if you are bewildered by "Bolivia" in the news...
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Saturday, 15 November, 1997, 02:47 GMT
Bolivia: Japanese Fugitive
He's alleged to have taken part in attacks on the French embassy in the Netherlands in 1974 and on the American mission in Malaysia in 1975.
He's also said to have been involved in the hijacking of a Japanese airliner between Tokyo and Paris in 1977.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/31720.stm
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Now, Mlles., BBC is not so bad, since the above news was, now a kind of miracle, in 1997, isn't it?]
Joh 5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Joh 5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.