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""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."
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Absolutely hogwash... Nothing would have stopped the japs... It was religion-driven conquests, just like the moslem's their history...

""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."
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Pure, unadulterated BS... This moron would also claim that the destruction of the towers on 911 was partly the fault of the American people... Using the same revisionist fantasy...

"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.""
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Here he goes again... Smoke-a-toke thinking...
Typical communist revisionist fantasizing to enhance a article written purely for its divide-the-Nation propaganda strategy...
The same fellow travelers wrote much the same kind of crap after WWII when we dropped the bombs to end the war...

"Absolutely hogwash... Nothing would have stopped the japs... It was religion-driven conquests, just like the moslem's their history..."

I agree with your analysis.
Thanks for making it clear.
I had suspected you were going in some other direction, sorry for the misunderstanding.

""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."

To a degree there is some truth in this. FDR cut the oil to Japan, along with other material embargos, threatening their economy. He had also shut the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. The impact of the scrap iron, oil and copper embargos were very impactful in driving Japan's future actions.

He knew war was coming with Japan...and as I've stated previously, believe he wanted the US in the war.

Richardson asked the President if the United States was going to war. Roosevelt's view was: At least as early as October 8, 1940, ...affairs had reached such a state that the United States would become involved in a war with Japan. ... 'that if the Japanese attacked Thailand, or the Kra Peninsula, or the Dutch East Indies we would not enter the war, that if they even attacked the Philippines he doubted whether we would enter the war, but that they (the Japanese) could not always avoid making mistakes and that as the war continued and that area of operations expanded sooner or later they would make a mistake and we would enter the war.' ... .[6][7]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

The breaking of their diplomatic code should have been the key we were looking for.

I think a lot of historians are bending over backwards to protect FDR's legacy.