Posted on 04/01/2014 8:08:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He said FDR went on television when the stock market crashed. Rep. Keith Ellison said that the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor (as did John Belushi's character in Animal House.
Somehow all this got mixed up on the Internet. Some of the Dan Quayle quotes that circulated are likewise not true.
I’m curious — why do you continue to make stupid and false claims about what the Constitution says?
I don't know if that's true -- who can say at this point -- but simply assuming that Japan was determined to attack all colonial possessions in Asia looks like bad history.
Dictatorships and other governments may have vague dreams of conquest and world domination, but what they actually do has a lot to do with changing circumstances -- the pressures and opportunities that arise in their environment, sometimes as a result of what other nations do.
We can't exclude the possibility that Japan would have lashed out at British, French, and Dutch possessions after Hitler conquered Western Europe -- maybe Japan would have found it hard to resist the temptation -- but we also can't assume that the Japanese (who had their hands full in China) would take on such a massive task if their flow of oil was secure.
Never mind I was just mildly interested in why you are so opposed to a small government, constitutional conservative. But go right away and keep bashing one of the most conservative senators in the US Senate.
Prior to WWII Japan had an extraordinary economic growth. It was overpopulated and starving for more resources to sustain improving living conditions for it’s people. They has two vectors to expand: Asia and Pacific. Asia was more favorable in the 1930s but as Japanese were on the roll Soviets interdicted them carving Mongolia from China, installed a puppet regime and drew a red line to keep them out of Russia there. Japanese tried to resolve it militarily but had their butts handed to them a couple times.
After that a Pacific vector, dominated by the US, became more favorable for the Japanese who thought America is all butter and no guns comparing to rival ‘white barbarians’ in Siberia.
The rest is history.
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