tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437084226490579730.post5590625792063071242..comments2024-03-17T00:15:35.041-04:00Comments on The American Chronicle: Treason at Pearl HarborTony Bonnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12837898079588982436noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437084226490579730.post-78946102438654493872014-09-10T21:44:05.483-04:002014-09-10T21:44:05.483-04:00They're missing the point about this so-called...They're missing the point about this so-called surprise attack: the US government was passively assisting them, for its own political purposes, by no taking no effective action to repel the coming assault.<br /><br />Although, they took care to clear the aircraft carriers out of Pearl Harbour, no doubt, to keep them safe and to ensure that they could not launch any counter attacks.kerdasi amaqnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437084226490579730.post-75250335080056616592013-06-14T17:03:59.412-04:002013-06-14T17:03:59.412-04:00i am not denying that the japanese had the capabil...i am not denying that the japanese had the capability to plan and execute an attack such as that at pearl harbor. on the other hand, the very least i would say is that they were manipulated with shrewd calculation. fdr wanted war, and he knew how to get it. official documents make clear that he promulgated a series of steps to guarantee that outcome.<br /><br />did some americans collaborate with the japanese, or were they played like a harp by fdr? my own personal view is that at the very least they were manipulated. but i also know that the rockefellers had a very strong interest in the asian markets and would have happily precipitated hostilities. Fletcher Prouty states matter of factly that SONY was a rockefeller project through standard oil of new york and i believe him. therein lies the intriguing possibility that the attacks involved american interests even if it was japanese military prowess bearing the responsibility.<br /><br />powerful convincing evidence demonstrates the foolishness and evil of dropping the bomb. I would refer you to Washington's Blog where the author did a superb job refuting the crap arguments that the bomb saved lives and ended the war early.Tony Bonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12837898079588982436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437084226490579730.post-54347853352220502712013-06-14T14:08:03.871-04:002013-06-14T14:08:03.871-04:00FDR may have been a schemer with a great batting a...FDR may have been a schemer with a great batting average, but even he would admit to making some major blunders (just ask about his court-packing scheme of 1937). It's true that US intelligence, badly organized as it was back then, predicted some form of Japanese retaliation once steel and oil were cut off in 1941, but it was thought (according to Henry Stimson and others) that US interests would be hit in the Far East, perhaps in the Philippines, or in Indonesia, where Allied oil reserves were. I have relatives who are Japanese. One of their ancestors served in the Japanese Navy. He said even most Japanese didn't know of the plan to hit Pearl Harbor. He also said that Americans had a very racist view of Asians at the time, which he heard plenty of, meaning that "Japs can't engineer sophisticated naval/air coordinated attacks as far as Hawaii because they have slanty eyes and are less advanced." That is how racist America was at that time. After 1941, the Americans would still harbor racism towards "the Japs" but there would be a bit more respect toward their military, toward their technical capabilities, than before the war. I asked my relatives in Japan what they thought of the idea that FDR set up the Pearl Harbor attacks. They laughed, saying "Do Americans think that everything comes from them?---Are they so stupid to think that maybe our country was incapable of making a surprise attack?" I reminded them that not ALL Americans thought like this, just a minority of people. They said "That's like one of us telling our people over here in japan that the atomic bomb was a Japanese conspiracy, engineered by our emperor!"<br />The fact that the Manhattan Project was kept secret from the American people was conspiracy enough, but necessary. I just wish we hadn't dropped those bombs on innocent civilians. We should have bombed an island and shown the Japanese what we were capable of doing, and many innocent lives would have been saved. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com