Actually the US leadership was under much pressure from its allies to enter the war and purportedly wanted to and believed entry was inevitable at some point. It was the simple fact that the general population was against entrance that stopped it happening earlier. The attack on Pearl was the catalyst that changed public opinion and allowed the govt to honor its agreements with the allied forces. Any logical disection of these facts leads to the theory that the Japanese attack was allowed to happen to achieve this change in opinion. I can believe that there was possibly some mistake about the target but given the fact that the US had broken the Japanese codes and were listening to what they were doing I find it hard to believe they knew nothing.
Dropping the bomb was a war crime by definition both under 'mass killings' and 'chemical weapons'. Almost all countries have committed war crimes to some extent and the US is near the top of the list. Some of the actions in Vietnam should have led to tribunals to rival Nuremburg. A lot of the actions in Afghanistan and Iraq are war crimes by definition including the actual invasions themselves. Even Canada does not have clean hands here as we are now condoning torture by our allies to get what is most likely useless intel. I don't think it is at all a good idea to point the finger at another country for its actions in war....it is a war after all and the object is to win.
In the first paragraph, you were doing fine until this line: "Any logical disection of these facts leads to the theory that the Japanese attack was allowed to happen to achieve this change in opinion."
The simple facts you refuse to deal with are these
IF the USA knew there was to be an attack on US forces, why were they not alerted?? An attack is an attack, on prepared forces or ones left unawares........yet the US Navy did not even put their major assets (battleships) out to sea, where they might have been able to defend themselves.
The idea that the USA not only did not take a proactive stance against a known invasion force, but that they also left themselves completely vulnerable, is beyond ludicrous, it is fantastic.
We are not talking about Vietnam, or Afghanistan, or Iraq. We are talking about bringing a massive conflict to an early end, thereby saving millions of lives.
Who gives a crap what 20-20 hindsight anti-American revisionists want to label it???
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary.........not right, but absolutely necessary.
Please do spell the name of every Canadian base and prove your greatness....
