And who was it provided Japan with the means to emerge from the feudal ages?
Who was it forced Japan to trade with the outside world?
Who was it inspired Japan to industrialize?
Who was it introduced Japan to the technological means to wage modern war?
Free traitors of earlier generations.
And for what? Cheap silk?
Had we left Japan be, there would have been no Pearl Harbor.
And I note Japan attacked America over oil.
Just you watch: those third world societies you want to help industrialize will develop an insatiable addiction to oil, and will one day fight us over oil as well.
OK. So I understood you corretly to begin with. You're an idealist isolationist, and the Nazis, Soviets and Islamists all would've let us be if we had just kept all of our jobs at home, stopped all use of oil, and been the France of America.