I don’t mind takeing the blame , but actually if you read the first sentence in the article that is where it started I quote:
“As expected yesterday, when the US went out full bore with a Japan approach of McCollum-like strategy of leaving Iran no option but to keep escalating until finally the US has enough public support grounds for a response,”
Actually Pilsner gave a good synopsis of my own opinion, and I saw nothing nasty in his Post. He was trying to be informative. That’s what these Posts are about opinions.
I hadn’t answered your Post because I figured it would pass and I didnt want to spend an evening going back and forth about differing opinions.
Japan was a belligerent nation in Asia just as Germany was belligerent in Europe. Roosevelt wanted in the European war so bad he could taste it and did many things illegally in order to enable England and Russia to survive until he got in He also squeezed Japan. Now I have no problem with his doing that nor with our entry into those wars, but to deny he put the squeeze on Japan, IMO is wrong.
To be squeezing Japan and not paying attention as their Navy dissappeared for a week, and aftercwarnings by Billy Mitchell and others of Pearl Harbor and it’s weakness was either terribly reckless or done on purpose.
I guess that will start another argument over opinions.
I understood what you were saying. I drug you into the mud only because Pilsner and I were misunderstood and pilloried by others.