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To: Kaslin; writer33; SunkenCiv; Homer_J_Simpson

The US refused to concede the Pacific to the Japanese, so of course we started it. lol.

Stupid isolationists


6 posted on 12/06/2011 3:39:42 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

Explain this:

“At a Nov. 25 meeting of FDR’s war council, Secretary of War Henry Stimson’s notes speak of the prevailing consensus: “The question was how we should maneuver them (the Japanese) into ... firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.””


20 posted on 12/06/2011 3:59:31 PM PST by old curmudgeon
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