Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "Understanding the Syrian War using Maps" video.

  1. For the record, we didn't establish a government in South Korea. And while we did write the Current Japanese constitution, a great deal of the functional government of Japan was carried over from the Imperial State.
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  2. My understanding is that most of the support for the insurgents is coming from Saudi Arabia, the other gulf states and from Turkey. The same is true of ISIS. Of course the government is receiving overwhelming support from Iran and Russia.
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  3. "No. Japan was occupied by the US, UK, Soviet Union, and China for over 5 years. And before 1947, Japan elected their first prime minister and restructured their legislator (Diet). The Imperial State was removed from power." Itō Hirobumi, Japan's first Prime Minister, took office on December 22, 1885. The elected legislature, the Diet, was established in the Meiji Constitution enacted on November 20, 1890. As for the first post-war Prime Minister, according to Wikipedia, "Throughout the 1930s and before the war ended in the 1940s, Yoshida continued to participate in Japan's imperialist movement; in early 1945 he was the Munitions Minister, and attempted to construct underground armament-manufacturing facilities to protect them from aerial bombing. After several months' imprisonment in 1945, he became one of Japan's key postwar leaders." The postwar Japanese government, much like it's Imperial forebear, concentrated the resources of the country to the zaibatsu, the same powerful business clans that built the might of the empire. It was this economic policy, along with the innovation of Soichiro Honda, which propelled Japanese industry to rival and in many ways replace American industry.
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  4. You might want to check out Sherman's march to the sea.
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  5. "+Alan Friesen ....? what does the Savannah Campaign have to do with this? you lost me...sorry. Reply " Yeah, looking back at the thread I'm not sure what the hell I was talking about. Sorry for the confusion.
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  6. The problem with Eva Bartlett is that when she constantly refers to the insurgents as terrorists it makes her sound like she's spouting pro-Government propaganda. It doesn't matter if she's presenting the truth — those with sympathies for the insurgents or antipathies for the regime are going to dismiss her as long as she uses that language.
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