User blog:InvaderrrZIM/The US Brought Pearl Harbor Upon Itself?!

Here's the article :O

Thoughts?

I think it would be interesting to see how things would have turned out if we didn't go to war with Japan. The article was very thought provoking.

My psychology teacher showed it to us because today was the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and we're in Honolulu so it's a pretty big deal here. I dunno, we didn't have a moment of silence or anything, I was just all liek "Hay guise today's the anniversary of pearl harbor" to my friends and they were liek "oh, cool. so, you playin' BF3 tonight?".

Anyway, if you're too lazy to read the article, the gist is this: Japan didn't want to go to war with us at first; there was a lot of support for pulling out of China and stuff, and those people were in power in Japan at the time. However, FDR ignored their peace offerings, and because they failed to produce results, they were overthrown by the anti-americans or something. And (don't think this was in the article, my teacher just talked about it) FDR was fully aware that we were about to be attacked. He had the guy in charge at Pearl Harbor draft up defense plans, but for some odd reason, he let his guard down on the day we were attacked. My psychology teacher put it this way: "Japan attacking us wasn't surprising. What was surprising was that we weren't ready for it". Because of his little mess up, the general was fired.

so yeah, interesting huh? Just thought I'd share that with ya lol. Since we gotta wait at least a month for the next new episode and stuff.