Diesel has a point. Up to now, the Marshalls, Iwo and Okinawa were necessary in order to allow strategic bombing of the Jap mainland. The Phillippines were needed to keep Jap resources there rather than concentrated either on the Chinese mainland, or Burma, or on the strategic islands -- Iwo and Ok. But yeah, if the Communist left manages to win America, it was all, and I mean all, for nothing.


Up hills slow,
Down hills fast
Tonnage first and
Safety last.