On the nature of "Rossups" (proof of the concept documented in real time)

I call them "Rossups" to lighten moments with my clients when I am wrong or they are wrong.

In yesterday's essay, I double counted General Pearson and inferred the "first 6" personnas mentioned in the fictional war were actual participants in WWII.  As I re read it this morning and discovered and corrected the error the '6 out of 6' becomes '5 out of 5.'  That hardly reduces my conclusion that such was not coincidence and is bolstered by the inferred "Supreme Commander" prediction.  Mr. Gann used the "Supreme Commander" title before it was ever used in any war.  It was first used, if you believe Wikipedia (sometimes problematic) in WWII.

But, on the nature of "Rossups" causing bad things.

Was it not the RMS Lusitania sinking by German submarines in 1915 a major point causing the U.S. to support the European allies in WWI and the subsequent entry into that theater?

Do I not recall a Japanese naval officer having said the Pearl Harbor attack would only serve to "awaken a sleeping giant?"  Well, refreshing my memory, that was a line in a movie according to (aghast) Wikipedia.  The quote has been attributed to Naval Marshal Isoroku Yamato in Tora! Tora! Tora!

Continuing the thought great Rossups and Pearl Harbor we source from Wikipedia:

How about another WWI Tossup (the below excerpt from HERE)?

[Caution, I have not taken the time to verify the above but that story sounds authentic.  I trust anything printed on the Internet.....]

Perhaps the Captain Rooker in TTTTA who's command accidentally destroyed commercial airplanes and brought Britain into the war was so intended to cause us to reflect on the errors that cause great tragedies.  Or perhaps the 'intended errors' such as some infer such to the Gulf of Tonkin incident which provided the rally cry of those who took the U.S. into the Vietnam War...recall, Edna Quinton might have been a coded link to Ton-quin....  Plausible but I do not know how to provide the dispositive case.

So, all the above makes you wonder.  The U.S. is operating in Syria at the same time Russia and Iran is operating in Syria.  U.S. is supporting anti Assayd rebels while Russia is bombing the, while a NATO ally, Syria(1), is shooting down Russian jets, while ISIS (I think) is shooting down Russian helicopters...  Whew.

I think the moment is right for a classic Rossup.

Jim Ross

(1) Proof of the concept of "Rossup" a friend informs me (which I knew but rossedup) it was the NATO ally Turkey that shot down the Russian jet....  Now you can take anything I say to the bank.