Michael Foster wrote:
This is from interview by an Austrian TV station that Soros felt would probably not be noticed in the U.S.
Oh come now. In the Internet era a person such as Soros knows perfectly well that anything he says to any media outlet anywhere on earth will be available everywhere within minutes. There is no chance he felt -- or hoped -- the comments would not be noticed in the U.S. That is preposterous. It is also preposterous to imagine that he is clever enough to destroy the U.S. economy but stupid enough to brag about it, or admit it to the press. Make up your mind! Is he an evil genius? Or a bungler who does not know how the Internet works?
Incidentally, Saint Franklin Roosevelt and General George C. Marshall knew full well that the Japanese would attack as they had been goaded into it.
Yes, of course they did. They intercepted and translated the diplomatic cable before it was delivered. For that matter, every informed newspaper reader knew an attack was coming. So did everyone involved in Japanese-U.S. relations, translating and espionage. The top people in that business on both sides were the ones who taught me how to speak Japanese 30 years later, so I know a thing or two about that. Probably more than you.
What they emphatically did not know was that Pearl Harbor was the target. You and some conspiracy theorists believe they did, but you are wrong. The people involved would not have kept it secret so long. Many of them disliked FDR as much as you do, especially the Republicans who conducted Congressional Investigations into the attack (secret at the time). It wouldn't have made much difference if they had known, because the U.S. Army Air Force in the Philippines was destroyed 24 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
(When I say "both sides" I mean the Japanese side -- not Republicans versus Democrats.)
- Jed
