Re: why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
[Re: warrior]
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Denmark had no real means of stopping the nazis. What is admirable is their plan in the event of invasion. First they evacuated the majority of their Jewish population to Sweden then scuttled what they could before the Germans got it. The NATO plan to deter a Soviet invasion was less admirable, plan was to Nuke the Soviets in Norway a NATO country. Imagine being a member of a organization knowing you were the sacrificial lamb.
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Re: why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
[Re: charles]
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Yes, closure of the shipping lanes. As an Island Nation, they needed to control raw materials like oil. Just as the Nazi came to power in Europe, Japan became aggressive toward China and other Asian nations. The US imposed an embargo which backed them into a corner. Their emperor was all powerful and the people and military followed him blindly. Their military had ramped up the Navy but under grossly estimated the industrial might of the US.
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Re: why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
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Donner you are way off base but I think you know that. Dad was at Iwo and Okie, wish you could have told him your point of view. What am I off base on?
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Re: why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
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The atrocities committed by the japs were many and policy. Us troops cannot be compared to that at all, end of story.
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Re: why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
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Revisionist smears against US armed forces. I think we can all agree that bad things happen in war and not every serviceman or woman lives up to our ideals but to make the claim that war crimes were US policy official or not is unsupported at best and slanderous at worst. Pointing out the fact the Allies committed war crimes is not a smear, it's just factual. Again a direct quote from Major-General Raymond Hufft 'if the Germans had won, I would have been on trial at Nuremberg instead of them.'" My grandfather Hated what he called "Japs", he worked on the Manhattan project and suffered and eventually died from a multitude of cancers. My Great Uncle helped liberate Japanese POW camps, it was often said "Bomb was to good for the Japs" anytime the war or anything Japanese was brought up. Never got the full story of another great uncle, he was in a tank and some sort of explosion took out most of his hearing while fighting the Japanese, he didn't talk about it. My Grandfather on my moms side came back from Korea and wouldn't even pick up a rifle to hunt anymore, couldn't even shoot a cow to butcher it, if you asked what he did in the war he replied with "I was a cook" and that was the end of the conversation. It's not that I love hating on the U.S armed forces, I pointed out crimes were committed on all sides. We can wrap ourselves in the flag and pretend every action the U.S has ever undertaken has been morally upright and just or we can look at the history discuss it and attempt to do better in the future. I am not on some left wing rant about how we need to go apologize and give reparation's, it's just a discussion of facts as I have read them. Would I have been better than the guys who shot Japanese or SS POWs? Who knows, probably not if we're being honest. It's not judgement, it's just acknowledgement.
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