[Mad Dawgg]

"Or Pearl Harbor prior to Dec 7th, 1941?"

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor for the trade embargo (Oil and Metal) we placed on them for their atrocities in China. They believed by attacking us we would fold like a cheap tent.

They were wrong...

[muawiyah]

The Japanese had already allied themselves to the Nazis (for a wide variety of reasons). Sure, the oil and metal embargo hurt ~ left them with a couple of months supply of both ~ enough to run their economy on a normal basis or launch an attack in SE Asia for the purpose of seizing the oil resources in Indonesia and Malaya. To do that they had to disable American (and Allied) military resources in the Pacific ~ hence the attack on Hawaii, the attack on the Philippines, and the attack on Singapore.

Filipinos could probably make an argument that their entanglement with the United States led the Japanese to attack them. But we'd dismiss that as crazy talk. It was pretty clear the Japanese were after their women!

Right guys?

Banzai. Banzai. Banzai. Free vacation on a Pacific island, soft breezes, beautiful girls, plenty of food other than rice to eat ~ you betcha!

[arrogantsob]

Admiral Yamamoto tried to warn them and they wouldn’t listen. So their strategy was to seize every strategic post before we could mobilize and hope we got tried of killing them to get them back. He was wrong, we were just warming up.

Paul would have just surrendered