SuperLuminal:
"Just sprinkling a couple of truths throughout a POS propaganda article doesn't change it's purpose..." So, you confess the last sentences are true?
"Reagan’s doctrine of “Peace Through Strength” was a true then as it was in the 1980s and is true today.
A powerful unassailable United States would probably have kept Japan at bay and it likely would have forced them to play nice on the international stage.
A perceived weak United States always emboldens mischief from nations controlled by tyrants."
So what, exactly do you disagree with about these sentences:
"In closing, America also bears some of the blame in its clumsy handling of Japan in the forty years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, and because it began rebuilding its military and navy far too late to thwart Japan’s imperialist ambitions.
Had the mobilization and new construction begun when Japan quit the limitation treaties, invaded China, attacked the USSR, when Germany attacked Poland, or when Japan joined the Axis, it would most likely have persuaded its leaders that a war with the United States was a no-win proposition under any circumstances."
Yes, the words "clumsy handling" annoy me too, because I don't believe more adroit "handling" would have made any difference.
I also don't think the US would have gone on a total-war footing absent some major provocation.
And then there's the matter of technology -- a lot of our pre-war equipment proved woefully inadequate when real combat came.
But overall, the article is fine, I'd say.
Why do you disagree?