[rktman]

I read a highly detailed account of the events leading up to Pearl Harbor and it sure cast YUGE some doubt in my mind when compared to the standard “The Japs attacked us for no reason.” story we usually hear. Don’t recall the name of the book. Probably something like “Pearl Harbor. The real story” . ;-)

[Kalamata]

I remember years ago my long-deceased parents telling me this was a very valid question. I think he may have read about it in his copy of the book called The Roosevelt Myth, which he said was one of his favorites. I donated most of his 4,000 books but saved The Roosevelt Myth, just to remind me of what my father told me years ago.

[BatGuano]

The book that you mention could be “At Dawn, We Slept.”
A great book that creates doubt of what we were told by the Roosevelt, FDR, administration and the role that General Marshall played in the ruse. Roosevelt was truly angry that the Japs had sunk most of our ships. He thought that the “sneak attack” (we knew because we had broken the “Purple Code) would piss the citizens off and he could declare war. Highly speculative but Roosevelt himself said that “in politics, nothing happens by accident.”

[Sontagged]

I actually recall reading these theories about Pearl in normal history books...

IOW, it was an historians right, if not duty, to investigate all research and sources.

The books I read on Pearl ALL discussed this possibility; it looked like the Japanese Embassy staff in D.C. was burning documents the day before Pearl.

But someone replied to my thread here correctly: it’s like erroneously being called “racist” now being called a conspiracy theorist.

Tucker Carlson, whom I sort of like, even used the term to ridicule anything but the MSM narratives when discussing Charlottesville (I think it was Charlottesville, but it may have been more recently). And this was AFTER is was revealed that the fake “alt right” perps at Charlottesville were CIAState with paid gigs at CNN!

So Tucker was doing it on so called “right” — shutting down normal discussion with ridicule.

And this makes him a “coincidence theorist” LOL...