[staytrue]

ALL of that was within range of ANY Japanese gunboat that pulled up to shore or anywhere near shore.

It was in range of any japanese gunboat with the capability of crossing the Pacific Ocean undetected which meant near zero probability. How can I be so sure the probablity was near zero ? Because if what you say is true, then the Japs would have tried to do it and the fact that they had either zero attempts and/or zero successes means by virtue of indisputable empiracle real world evidence, I am right and you are wrong.

[SMARTY]

After Dec. 7, '41, no one wanted to risk any further AVOIDABLE disasters. That the country's leaders in 1941 did not have our same luxury of perfect and irrefutable 20/20 hindsight must have occurred to you.