[BroJoeK]

DoodleDawg: " Your argument makes as much sense as saying that for the U.S. the Second World War began on December 8th since that was the day of the formal declaration rather than on December 7th, the day of the Japanese attack."

As President Roosevelt said at the time:

"I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire."

That's the same use of language as the Confederate Declaration of War against the United States, May 6, 1861.

But our FRiend, DiogenesLamp, has adopted the insane position that any comparison of Fort Sumter with Pearl Harbor "ist verboten", and therefore excluded from his own analyses.

But in fact that comparison is rather good, in several respects.

[DiogenesLamp]

More lunatic stuff. No thanks. I think i’ll skip it.