How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor

[javaguru]

Robert Higgs

 

[Fitguy308]

First!

 

[javaguru]

This is common knowledge among college history majors but secondary education still promotes the myths.

 

[bakemeacookie]

how about this? japan butchered and slaughtered chinese, filipinos and american pows everywhere. Unlike the nazis, they wanted to kill everyone. Glad a bomb stopped them.

 

[redsamurai]

yeah teh japanese were pieces of shit in the early 1900's. What they were doing in China alone warranted the bomb.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I'm trying to think if I ever read in U.S. History class of how FDR froze Japanese-American assets months before Pearl Harbor. Granted they were Germany's ally and occupied more territory than our leaders were comfortable with, but the apparent motives behind even that are more interesting.


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Pearl Harbor

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

how about this? japan butchered and slaughtered chinese, filipinos and american pows everywhere. Unlike the nazis, they wanted to kill everyone. Glad a bomb stopped them.

The Japanese were hellbent and crazy, and hitting the reset button made them take notice, but I'd say Stalin/USSR was still worse. We brushed that under the rug too.

Replace these with Nazi propaganda and see how long the protests last-

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[bakemeacookie]

The Japanese were hellbent and crazy, and hitting the reset button made them take notice, but I'd say Stalin/USSR was still worse. We brushed that under the rug too.

word. That's why it angers me when for decades the joos/us kept goign after nazi war criminals (with shady evidence) but COMPLETELY IGNORED the endless slaughter and rape by the USSR/Japan against germans, polish, us pow's, chinese, filipino's, children, etc.

All tohse war criminals got away. Some are still living, even Hirohito got away. The world FORGAVE russia & japan. Nice.

There's a reason why many ww2 vets and chinese still to this day refuse to do anything with japan or japanese culture. My ex-gf's grandparemts were slaughtered by those butchers. She hates them, and their govt still to this day, refuse to apologize.

Glad they got the bombs. Hope they suffered.

 

[redsamurai]

i'm an admirer of ancient japan and it's culture but even I will concede they absolutely deserved the bomb.

 

[digimon7068]

This is common knowledge among college history majors but secondary education still promotes the myths.

so we should attack the chinks now, yes???