Another Attempt at Book Banning

musicprnt
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:08:09 +0000

@mathmom:
The US didn’t blockade Japanese ports, they cut off oil supplies to Japan when Japan refused to stop the invasion of China and the brutal actions they were known for their, the Japanese deny they ever happened, but their troops were as brutal if not more so then the SS…and I get a little tired of this idea of the bad old US doing that to Japan and glossing over that the Japanese empire was one of the most brutal regimes the world has ever seen…the US cut off their oil in the hope they could get Japan to retreat from China, keep in mind Japan invaded China many years before Pearl Harbor, they were the guilty party.

The reason that Japan attacked pearl Harbor (they hit the Phillippines several weeks later) was they hoped to strike a crippling blow to the US fleet and also in the hope that it would give the US pause about their actions, what they really hoped was when they gave the US the ultimatum, that was a de facto declaration of war (that ended up being delivered hours after Pearl Harbor was hit, it was supposed to be delivered a half hour before),that the US would back down, and if not, they would destroy the fleet and cripple the ability of the US to fight in the Pacific until they rebuilt . The idea that Hirohito was this nice guy who wrote poetry and was a captive of the military is also a crock, in the ensuing 70+ years much has come out that shows that that view of him was pretty much propoganda, to justify keeping him as Emperor, rather than as a case could have been made, to try him as a war criminal like the other leaders were (or should have been, few were).

Turned out Yammamoto was right, the Japanese government saw the US as this weak country that would never fight (given the strength of the America First movement and Herr Lindberg, not surprising), he said he feared all they had done was awaken a sleeping giant, and he was right. Within 6 months of Pearl Harbor the ships that could be salvaged had been repaired, new ships were starting to come online, and Midway pretty much destroyed the Japanese carrier fleet.