Then we promptly declared war on Germany.
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Gen. Smedley Butler warned in "War Is a Racket" that the powers that be were trying to engineer a war with Japan. The book was first published in 1935.
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There is some thing in nature that loves a racket.
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GP By embargoing rubber and oil from Japan? THE DEUCE YOU SAY! Also, this historical parallel to Iran today is absolutely meaningless and not at all worthy of study or discussion lest we inadvertently learn something.
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I f we have learned anything from history, it’s that we don’t learn things from history.
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FDR wanted a war? I’m not an expert on history, but I’ve been taught my entire life that the US didn’t want war ‘til the attack on Pearl Harbor. Also, as far as I know, the US did what it did to defend China which the imperials were planning on attacking.
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I don’t know, but it does seem that Imperial Japan was in the wrong from the very beginning, only concerned about expanding their territory and unwilling to peacefully negotiate. I’m Japanese myself, but I’m hesitant to defend the imperials on anything.
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Then there's the Pearl Harbor base commander dropping the ball. Even without the intel intercepts from Washington (that arrived a couple days later), they should've been at least sitting alert when they intercepted the IJN midget subs earlier in the week.
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