The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th. 1941. I believe that is what you meant. My point is we are not a war-mongering, blood-thirsty people bent on conquest. If we were I’d be paying 10 cents a gallon for gas becasue we could have invaded any oil producing nation on Earth, taken their oil and they couldn’t do anything about it.
Of course we are. We had no qualms about conquering the North American continent, Mexico, Cuba, the Philippines, or Hawaii. The reason we don't conquer the Saudis is because it's easier just to let them sell us the oil, not because of our superior national morality. (In fact, we threatened to "kick their ass and take their gas" as our own several times during the Cold War.)
Look, I'm as patriotic as anyone, but the idea that the United States government can do no wrong is not only stupid, it's nonsensical. Our nation is run by the heirs of Machiavelli, just as every other nation in the world is.