Well, thanks for proving that you are a moron.
FDR understood perfectly well that the Japanese military would consider and then attempt to execute a "sneak attack" on the main port of its enemy.
Ferchissakes, Slagle, not everyone is as incompetent as you are at understanding history.
The Japanese successfully attacked Port Arthur in 1904, and this is the most impotent fact you need to know about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese command, i.e. Hirohito, was lured into attacking Pearl Harbor, based on his trivial understanding of armaments.
There was simply no real battle fought on December 7, 1941. There was a spectacular deception fought that day. Actually, two of them. The Japanese were deceived into thinking that they could attack a mothball fleet of archaic and irrelevant battleships and win something. And the American public was incensed that so many had died for patriotism. Both the Japanese and the American public were fooled, bamboozled, skunked and four-flushed.
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Wake up now! Roosevelt kept every Pacific aircraft carrier well out to sea as the silly remnants of an archaic navy were cut to shreds in Pearl Harbor, creating one of the greatest recruiting events that mankind has ever seen. In fact, my father volunteered soon after Pearl Harbor, because this is what real patriots would do.
Of course, my father was 18 years old and clueless about statecraft. And the nature of naval warfare.
The U.S., thank Gawd, wasn't as stupid as the Ruskies in Port Arthur. We did not lose the effective fleet. We sacrificed the archaic remnants of an old and useless regime.
The Battle of Midway proves what I say.
After that, it was all downhill for the player with the best oil reserves, the best machine tool plants and the best strategy. Japan was doomed, even before it began.
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You are interesting to read, Slagle. Mostly because you believe in so many faulty myths about who you are. You haven't a clue how America works, and yet you are completely willing to show your hand as a complete idiot. That's admirable, I reckon. The elites can certainly use tontos utiles like you. |
