Some folks don’t really want to know what was going on behind closed doors. Democratic doors IIRC.
Because the US built what was made to appear as an invading force in Manila in the months before Pearl Harbor.
The same day Pearl Harbor was attacked the Philippines were attacked
Our National Guardsmen there were the first prisoners taken and the last released.
Read .... “Bataan Uncensored” written by one of my family members
https://www.amazon.com/Bataan-Uncensored-Col-B-Miller/dp/0963164201