In Paul’s bizaare view of the world: 1. The COnfederate bombardment of Fort Sumter; 2. The German sinking of allied shipping in 1916-17; 3. The japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbor; Should have just gone unanswered,
Nice try. The bombing of Fort Sumpter should have gone unanswered because it was completely justified.
There would have been no issue with the sinking of "Allied" shipping if Wilson had not decreed that American citizens have the right to sail unmolested through a war zone on combatant vessels carrying ammunition. Remember the British were sinking or seizing any ship that approached Germany - including American Ships!
Pearl Harbor was the culmination of four decades of colonial ambitions in China by both the US and Japan. If we had minded our own business with regard to China we would never have ended up in a war with Japan.
“Nice try. The bombing of Fort Sumpter should have gone unanswered because it was completely justified”
1. That’a stupid on its face and speaks for itself. I could go into the question of whether a state should be allowed to secede, but whats the point. If you believe that the Union was wrong to preserve the Union and was thus the “aggressor”, then why are you here, and saluting the Star Stripes?
“There would have been no issue with the sinking of “Allied” shipping if Wilson had not decreed that American citizens have the right to sail unmolested through a war zone on combatant vessels carrying ammunition. Remember the British were sinking or seizing any ship that approached Germany - including American Ships!”
2. Oh ok so if Wilson had not demanded the safety of Americans as a citizen of a neutral country the Germans would not have been “mad” at us? That’s what you call leadership? Is that the job of a commander in chief, to allow US citizens to be torpedoed by German U-Boats? WTF are you talking about? What are you smoking?
“Pearl Harbor was the culmination of four decades of colonial ambitions in China by both the US and Japan. If we had minded our own business with regard to China we would never have ended up in a war with Japan.”
3. Ok so we should have just let them destroy 75% of the US Pacific Fleet and almost 3000 sailors in an effort to “call it even”? WTF?
Tell me exactly how you are different from the average anti-war ANSWER member again?