To understand the reasons for Japan bombing Pearl Harbor, one has to look at almost a couple of decades of oil distribution (early `20s through the `30s), and, in fact, because the two main oil producers in the world in the `20s were the United States and the UK, and those two countries sought to limit oil allotments to Japan, as a means of restricting its military development and expansion into China, since both countries had designs on controlling trade with China.
This process began in the early `20s, after Wilson had left office, and the agreements in 1925 (I think) were the beginning of the disagreements with Japan, which only became exacerbated over time.
Of course, the irony of the Japanese bombing was that they destroyed some of the naval ships, but ignored the huge stores of oil near the port. Had the Japanese destroyed those, it would have set back the war in the Pacific for several months, since those stores were the virtual entirety of American oil in the Pacific.
...at least he didn't claim that Germany bombed Pearl Harbor. That's a step up the intellectual rung for him (although we are still in that context debating whether planaria are smarter than earthworms)...
Rising Hegemon
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Hey, leave Beckerhead alone... he's only off by 4 presidents and almost 3 decades... and all the other little details, you nitpicker!
I did find that in 1917 Wilson did this though:
On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
Beck is an ahistorical crank.
To understand the reasons for Japan bombing Pearl Harbor, one has to look at almost a couple of decades of oil distribution (early `20s through the `30s), and, in fact, because the two main oil producers in the world in the `20s were the United States and the UK, and those two countries sought to limit oil allotments to Japan, as a means of restricting its military development and expansion into China, since both countries had designs on controlling trade with China.
This process began in the early `20s, after Wilson had left office, and the agreements in 1925 (I think) were the beginning of the disagreements with Japan, which only became exacerbated over time.
Of course, the irony of the Japanese bombing was that they destroyed some of the naval ships, but ignored the huge stores of oil near the port. Had the Japanese destroyed those, it would have set back the war in the Pacific for several months, since those stores were the virtual entirety of American oil in the Pacific.
Oh, yeah... fuck off, Blech.
because history is not really taught, beckkk is able to stuff the beckkky heads with shit.
...at least he didn't claim that Germany bombed Pearl Harbor. That's a step up the intellectual rung for him (although we are still in that context debating whether planaria are smarter than earthworms)...
i'm almost intrigued. just how crazy can this country get? what are the outer limits of insanity can america support? what would that look like?
sure, blame liberals for pearl harbor.
forget that it was conservatives who admired hitler, were isolationists and didn't want to the US to join wwII.
The Texas School Board just did a Pearl Harbor on the public school system in Texas...by dropping God bombs into every classroom.
what are the outer limits of insanity can america support? what would that look like?
Like a Texas RNC convention writ large.
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