On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What's more, Pearl Harbor was prompted by Japan's knowledge that it was > just a matter of time before we entered the war. Basically, they knew we > were coming in and they wanted to make sure it happened on thier terms. > Whoa now, where are you getting that???? I've heard several reasons for the attack, most of them strategically based around Japan's overall goal of a domination of the south Pacific. I'd never heard this angle of "they are going to join in anyway, might as well attack them first". > Also an interesting little tidbit: Neither the Emperor of Japan nor the > Japanese diplomats at the time knew about the attack till after it happened. > Only their navy was in on the plan. Strange as that sounds to us, it wasn't > that uncommon in pre-WW2 Japan for the military to go off on thier own like > that. > Really?!?!?!?! Man...you are stumping me today, and I've read a lot about WW2. Is this really true??? If the Japanese diplomat didn't know about it, how come he promptly cut off communication with the US right before the attack??? -- The suburbs have no charms to soothe The restless dream of youth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318491 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
