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Hiroshima, 64 Years Later
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 579883" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>We didnt "manipulate" the Japanese into attacking us.</p><p> </p><p>We imposed economic sanctions, including an oil embargo (at the time we were an exporter of oil) to protest the Japanese conquest of China.</p><p> </p><p>Japan wanted oil and rubber, which were available in Dutch Indonesia and British Malaysia...and by 1941 both Dutch and the British were getting their asses kicked by the Nazis and were therefore unable to defend their colonies. The Japanese decided to cripple our Pacific fleet with a surprise attack because we were the only military power capable of resisting their expansion into those areas.</p><p> </p><p>The idea of a carrier-based sneak attack upon a fleet was basically unheard of at that time, which is what allowed the attack to occur with complete surprise. The idea that Roosevelt hatched a scheme to allow the bulk of our surface fleet to be blown out of the water while basically surrendering the entire Far East to Japan...in order to "motivate" the US to enter the war against Germany... is ridiculous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 579883, member: 14668"] We didnt "manipulate" the Japanese into attacking us. We imposed economic sanctions, including an oil embargo (at the time we were an exporter of oil) to protest the Japanese conquest of China. Japan wanted oil and rubber, which were available in Dutch Indonesia and British Malaysia...and by 1941 both Dutch and the British were getting their asses kicked by the Nazis and were therefore unable to defend their colonies. The Japanese decided to cripple our Pacific fleet with a surprise attack because we were the only military power capable of resisting their expansion into those areas. The idea of a carrier-based sneak attack upon a fleet was basically unheard of at that time, which is what allowed the attack to occur with complete surprise. The idea that Roosevelt hatched a scheme to allow the bulk of our surface fleet to be blown out of the water while basically surrendering the entire Far East to Japan...in order to "motivate" the US to enter the war against Germany... is ridiculous. [/QUOTE]
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