Pearl Harbor and 9/11

Okay, Jay wants to know if I buy the 'sneak attack' theory the Ministry of Propaganda (public shools) teach about the beginning of World War II.

Personal theory: FDR was dying to get in the war, but he hated Jews too much to take Hitler on the basis of genocide. There was intense isolationist pressures on FDR to stay the fuck out of the war.

So how do you get into a war when no one would support it? You engineer an excuse.

Japan invading China makes total sense if you look at it from the standpoint of Japan. You're starving, the emperor is both God and the subject of numerous assassination plots/attempts, particularly by the military.

No Popemobile for Hirohito, either.

The miscalulation was to hit America while China could still fight. Much as if Hitler had gone South to the middle east and tied up the oil he needed before betraying Russia, he'd have taken the European theater absolutely. If he did that while Japan left Pearl Harbor, (a part of the U.S. in the same way San Juan is today) alone, Japan would have taken over China and Southeast Asia with ease. Hitler would have gotten the oil he needed and Russia and England would fall to the Reich.

Then, America. Full of strategic minerals, open land, productive agriculture and people who think Hitler is the best thing that could have happened for Germany. I think if Japan had focused on Asia, Hitler would have beent he first to attack the U.S., focusing on NYC and DC at first, then taking the Manahattan Project at his leisure.

Would he test atomic bombs over Japanese cities? Of course. Well, he'd get to it eventually. I think he'd test them first over population centers in Africa, then South America. Then he'd enact a population control on China and Japan that would make the Cultural Revolution look like Tennis Camp.

Herein lies the problem of moral relativism. From the first Trade Center attack to the embassy bombings to Flight 800 America either ignored or denied Al Queda's attacks. We didn't just fail to feel the pea, we slept on a bed of rocks and claimed it was a waterbed. Then, four years ago, they hit us with some stank on it and we pretended to be surprised.

About as surprised as FDR was when Pearl Harbor blew. I'd bet $50 he had the declaration of war speech for Congress written before those Zeros fueled up.