Invading Pearl harbor

[David Metevia]

I think invasion also implies an intent to conquer and stay.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at skechers.com>wrote:

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> What seems more odd than the quotation marks around "evil" is the use of
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> word "invasion" to describe what the Japanese did to Pearl Harbor.
>  Wouldn't
> "bombing' or 'attack' or 'destruction' be more apt? Doesn't an invasion
> imply (at least some) 'boots on the ground'?
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