I am merely anti-moronic. I hope you don't consider Americans to be morons in General, cause I don't.
I expected nothing less than you parroting your leaders propaganda and apologies.
December 7, 1941 is and was ’A date which will live in infamy.’, but not for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, rather for the deception and the mis-guidance used by the Government and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In a purely artificial chess game Roosevelt sacrificed over 2400 American Seamen’s lives, thanks to his power as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
The US forced Japan into war, and the attack on Pearl Harbour was known in advance to your President.
The american public was simply betrayed as usual, just another time more, to appeal to your patriotism, which is so nicely manipulable.
The USA froze Japanese assets and embargoed Japan's oil after Japan invaded French Indochina (Vietnam.) And more importantly, the USA gave Japan an ultimatum to pull out of French Indochina before even talking about lifting the embargo. There was no other oil available on the world market at the time, it was all spoken for due to the needs of the World War Two which was raging at the time. Japan had a choice between pulling out of French Indochina and hoping the USA was good to its word, doing nothing and watch their factories and economy come to a halt when their stockpiled oil ran out, or seize the Dutch oil fields in Indonesia. While I'm not defending Japan's imperial policies, there really isn't any doubt that the USA's ultimatum and oil embargo was designed to goad Japan into a war with the USA. Whether that constitutes 'forcing" Japan into war is debatable, but it's certainly understandable that many in Japan think so.
One perspective is given by Vice Admiral Frank E. Beatty, who at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack was an aide to the Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and was very close to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inner circle, with perspicuous remarks as:
"Prior to December 7, it was evident even to me... that we were pushing Japan into a corner. I believed that it was the desire of President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Churchill that we get into the war, as they felt the Allies could not win without us and all our efforts to cause the Germans to declare war on us failed; the conditions we imposed upon Japan—to get out of China, for example—were so severe that we knew that nation could not accept them. We were forcing her so severely that we could have known that she would react toward the United States. All her preparations in a military way—and we knew their over-all import—pointed that way."
Another "eye witness viewpoint" akin to Beatty's is provided by Roosevelt's administrative assistant at the time of Pearl Harbor, Jonathan Daniels; it is the telling comment about FDR's reaction to the attack - "The blow was heavier than he had hoped it would necessarily be. ... But the risks paid off; even the loss was worth the price. ..."
What this man said implies absolute foreknowledge of the attack, and that's just one of many. FDR knew they were coming, even ordered 2 carriers away despite the already lackluster protection with fighter-planes. He wanted the base to get hit by the Japanese in order to get the American public behind a justified war, which they would not have done so easily if the US had struck first officially.
(remember Gulf of Tonkin?)
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/pearl_harbor.htmAlso, I understand that you need to calm your guilty conscience with BS like "dropping 2 nukes on Japan saved many lives". After all the US are the "good guys", right?
