He was a pragmatist acting in his government's (but not the people's) interest, no different from Hitler or FDR. In fact, one could argue that FDR & Co has caused more damage to humanity than Hitler or Stalin, because the latter two have much less on-going impact on history, while FDR's legacy continues to kill to the present day.
FDR's ongoing impacts on the world would include liberal democracy for all of continental Europe and much of the Asian Pacific.
FDR has prolonged the Great Depression, and his legacy has led to his mistakes now being repeated with the Bailout Bubble - all that economic loss will shave off quite a bit of time from the life expectancy of every human being on earth, often making the difference between life and death!
Actually paleocon revisiionist arguments regarding FDR prolonging the Great Depression have been thoroughly debunked by those little things we here in the reality based community call facts, there was only a slight recession between 1937 and 1938 4 years into FDR's term, the rest of his term saw huge economic growth of 9-10% every year FDR was in office and unemployment fell every year FDR was in office.
You're spinning so hard that plugging you up to a generator would cut the world-wide electricity costs in half!
The word "boycott" is used to describe one's individual choices as a consumer, while what the U.S. government did was a use of the armed forces to initiate aggression against a specific nation and/or its trading partners. You try to sell oil to Japan - boom, you're dead! To say that's not war is like saying murder by strangulation isn't murder because you've merely deprived your victim of air!
That is what we would refer to as a lie. It was U.S. developed, drilled, refined, and owned oil that was not sold to Japan, no threats were ever made to any nation regarding their trade relations with Japan.
I noticed that you provided no link to back up this ridiculous claim.
And the
1967 Oil Embargo is something entirely different - that conflict
started in the 19th century and has reached total war after the "
the Catastrophe of 1948". There's no question that the Zionists / Israel are the aggressor in that war.
Except that a) Japan was engaged in a aggressive war of conquest and in Asia and B) Israel has never once in their entire history engaged in a aggressive war and have accepted every single peace proposal since 1948 which hasn't called for the destruction of Israel through a demographic shift aka "the right of return".
Yes, Japan must be under the total control of the United States, no other option is acceptable.
Um no they must end their aggressive genocidal war in the Asian mainland or we won't sell them any more oil to fuel their war machine. To which they responded with an act of war against Pearl Harbor.
I have. I know that Germany has exterminated millions of Jews, including some of my relatives. But that conference didn't take place in 1933; it took place in 1942, after America has entered the war, and the invasion of the Soviet Union started showing proof that Germany's optimism for a quick victory was very much unwarranted.
Hitler wanted a "racially pure" Germany free of "undesirable" cultural influences, and it makes a whole lot more economic sense to ransom the "undesirables" out rather than just kill them. He initially thought the Jewish prisoners would be an asset, a bargaining chip for their wealthy and politically-influential relatives abroad, but if other nations weren't willing to pay to rescue them, they became a liability - keeping millions of prisoners alive while the nation is being invaded from both sides and suffers fuel and food shortages is not easy.
America's unwillingness to rescue those Jews, even turning back ships filled with refugees, are some of the things that mainstream historians have been trying to de-emphasize. Some stories get through (ex.
MS St Louis), while most do not. The reality is that the U.S. government has contributed to the Holocaust more than it has helped end it.
Jews began being mass murdered in 1939, if Hitlers ambition was not to slaughter all of the Jews then why exactly wasn't the Madagascar Plan ever initiated?
Just as there was no Communist plot to undermine Czarist Russia. Oops. :3oops:
Sure, not all Jews were Communists,
but a large fraction of the leading Communists were Jews. And not all
Japanese Americans were loyal to the emperor either - except of course there were fewer of them, and America had the economic resources to lock them up more humane conditions than the German equivalent.
lol you cited a forum and the citation offered (with no link gee I wonder why?) which tracks back through a google search to
Politics Religion Wake-up America, Jews, Judaism, neo-cons and America which hosts some interesting little neo-Nazi tidbits; such as,
THE HIDDEN NATION OF THE JEWS Understanding Jewish Influence and
JEWS IN THE MEDIA***
:roll:
FYI Lenin and Stalin were both Christians.
Ah, right, typical American public school education. "Before Pearl Harbor, which no one could have seen coming, America was just sitting there in Hawaii, one of the 13 original colonies, and minding its own business, not even thinking about colonizing anyone half a world away"... :roll:
The U.S. was not in a period of expansion at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, in fact this was a period of U.S. isolationism.
"Have been interpreted by some historians" my foot,
MAGIC intercepts prove conclusively that Togo rejected Sato's proposal for unconditional surrender provided the imperial house is preserved, quite frankly sir you have no clue what you're talking about.
Have you even heard of the plans for the "honorable death of 100 million"?
Japan was never a threat to the United States,
They destroyed the entire Pacific fleet save for a few aircraft carriers.
and the U.S. could have ended that war at any time - or not have started it in the first place.
We didn't start it, it is they who attacked us.
Little nations don't attack big nations out of the blue, they only do it in self-defense!
lol the Nipponese Empire was not a little nation and they had been engaged in aggressive wars of conquest in mainland Asia and the Pacific for a decade before their attack on Pearl Harbor.