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In a message dated 3/3/01 9:35:54 PM Mountain Standard Time,
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<< Nakano comments:
A few historical facts.
Franklin Roosevelt ran as the "peace candidate"
in the 1940 election. He said: "I have said it before,
and I say it again and again....I am not about to
send your sons to fight and die in another European
war." The American People were strongly against
the U.S. entering World War 2.>>
True, FDR was a liar.
<< Something dramatic and shocking was needed to turn
public opinion around.
In about June of 1941 Roosevelt halted U.S. oil
exports to Japan. (Denial of a strategic resource)
Japan has no oil of its own. They were getting about
half of their imports from the U.S. when FDR cut off
their supply.>>
We did not attack Japan. It is not our fault that Japan has no oil. We are
not obligated to service Japanese needs.
<< That same summer or early fall, Roosevelt closed
the Panama Canal to Japanese ships. The U.S. had
guaranteed canal access to all nations, but FDR
ignored that promise.>>
FDR had no right to close the canal to Japan. The Congress ignored what was
the right thing to do and let FDR have his way. The US built the canal; we
should have some control over it's usage, but I see your point.
<< In November of 1941, Roosevelt gave Japan an
ultimatum to get their military forces out of
Manchuria.>>
I don't like FDR, however he was right that Japan had no right to invade
China, Korea, etc. Just because Japan has few natural resources does not
give it a right to invade other countries to steal their natural resources.
<< Roosevelt was shoving and pushing Japan....daring
the Japanese to take a swing at us.
They finally did on December 7th, 1941.
Indeed it was a "day of infamy".
2,500 U.S. military personnel died in the attack
on Pearl Harbor.
They were sacrificed by Roosevelt in order to
reverse public opinion about America entering
the war.
It worked.
In 1 day, the American People went from 80 percent
opposed to the war....to demanding that the U.S.
declare war. An entire generation of young American
men lined up at the draft board offices to enlist.
So much for the so-called "unprovoked sneak-attack".>>
The fact is that we did not attack Japan. Of course the American public is
going to want war against another country that attacked us. FDR wanted to
get us in the European war, Japan was a backdoor to doing this, Why was Japan
pissed off because we didn't sell them petroleum or allow them access to the
Panama Canal ... could it be because they wanted these resources to enslave
all of Asia? We did not attack Japan; Japan attacked the US.
<< As for the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
It was unnecessary.
Nor would an invasion of Japan been necessary.
The Japanese navy was on the bottom of the ocean.
Every Japanese city of any consequence was in ruins.
More people were killed in the conventional firebomb
raids on Tokyo than were killed at either Nagasaki
or Hiroshima.
American naval and airpower had Japan in an
inescapable stranglehold.
Japan is an island nation lacking in many resources
such as iron ore, coal, and oil.
All we had to do was keep Japan encircled....
and wait.
The surrender was inevitable.
Instead, we became the only nation in history
to use atomic weapons against another country.
Truman ordered those bombs dropped on an already
beaten....and virtually defenseless people.
The fact is, not a single japanese aircraft
rose in the sky to challenge the Enola Gay B-29
that dropped the bomb.
They were helpless and we bombed them anyway. >>
What you say here has a lot of merit. It would have made more sense to
starve them into surrender. However, the taking of Okinawa was no easy task
and if as you say Japan was already defeated maybe we should not have invaded
Okinawa and just let them surrender, but they did not surrender. I lived in
Japan for over four years. The Japanese are much like people in the US, they
don't like to give up in a fight. The only way to force Japan to surrender
was to use the bomb or to invade the main island. They would have fought off
the invasion to the best of their ability and it would have cost millions of
lives on both sides. The Japanese would have fought the same as Americans
would fight if our country was invaded. The only way the war would have
ended would be to decimate Japan as much or more than Germany was decimated.
I do see your point clearly, FDR railroaded the US into WW2. Japan
overreacted to FDR's pushing and shoving by pulling a gun and we reacted in
kind. I do not agree that Japan was utterly defeated. The bomb was probably
the only way to make the Emperor surrender. Just like FDR, the emperor did
not fight in the war and therefore he could be "tough" against any blockade,
it is a different matter when citizens are being incinerated by the tens of
thousands. I hope you can see my point.
Regards,
Bob Stokes
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