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36. Even FDR acknowledged it was tantamount to an act of war.

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 11:26 PM

Mar 2013

In 1937, after a clash at Marco Polo Bridge near Peking, Japan invaded and, after four years of fighting, including the horrific Rape of Nanking, Japan controlled the coastal cities, but not the interior. When France capitulated in June 1940, Japan moved into northern French Indochina. And though the United States had no interest there, we imposed an embargo on steel and scrap metal. After Hitler invaded Russia in June 1941, Japan moved into southern Indochina. FDR ordered all Japanese assets frozen. But FDR did not want to cut off oil. As he told his Cabinet on July 18, an embargo meant war, for that would force oil-starved Japan to seize the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies.

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Can you imagine if FDR decided not to bother avenging Pearl Harbor? [View all] graham4anything Mar 2013 OP

Where's this going? And is "republican" a typo? Scuba Mar 2013 #1

Freudian me thinks whatchamacallit Mar 2013 #2

"Avenging?" Are we superheroes in this scenario, or Old Testament patriarchs? Romulox Mar 2013 #3

Only the looniest of loons would be against retaliation after the Pearl Harbor attack. nt Comrade_McKenzie Mar 2013 #4

One Congresswoman was against it... and she was no loon: Cooley Hurd Mar 2013 #12

What is this theKed Mar 2013 #5

REAL PEOPLE DIED ON 9-11. And America went Bankrupt because of it graham4anything Mar 2013 #7

Dude. Take a breath theKed Mar 2013 #9

Didn't the people who voted for Ralph Nader think about what they were doing? graham4anything Mar 2013 #11

What are you going off at, here? theKed Mar 2013 #15

This is incoherent rambling. Ooga Booga 911 Ooga Nader! Blaargh! morningfog Mar 2013 #21

. Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2013 #26

This guy's posts are usually nonsensical rants. white_wolf Mar 2013 #39

Or, John Wilkes Booth deciding not to avenge Appomattox? Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2013 #6

Who has the picture of the bunny with a pancake on its head? NightWatcher Mar 2013 #8

The bunny is gone, all that remains is the fine chapeau Brother Buzz Mar 2013 #13

The most important question in this thread is jsr Mar 2013 #23

He's a she, and we had to retire the Three Second Rule Brother Buzz Mar 2013 #25

If the Revolutionary War had never been fought, the US would still have become independent, Nye Bevan Mar 2013 #10

answer olddots Mar 2013 #14

What the fuck are you talking about? morningfog Mar 2013 #16

Picture an insane octopus whatchamacallit Mar 2013 #18

I'm rather at a loss to understand myself. apocalypsehow Mar 2013 #42

FDR would never have let the Germans get away with that AngryAmish Mar 2013 #17

if the us hadnt thrown a blockade around japan we might not have had a pearl harbor leftyohiolib Mar 2013 #19

We did not blockade Japan. We stopped trading with them because they were using our steel and oil pampango Mar 2013 #20

Well that's not true. Bonobo Mar 2013 #30

So the US refusing to sell our own oil to Japan was "basically an act of war". pampango Mar 2013 #34

This message was self-deleted by its author Bonobo Mar 2013 #35

Even FDR acknowledged it was tantamount to an act of war. Bonobo Mar 2013 #36

Japan would not have invaded the Dutch East Indies for the oil if not for our embargo? pampango Mar 2013 #47

Well, I can imagine if he had decided to avenge Pearl Harbor by attacking madinmaryland Mar 2013 #22

Dutch East Indies, historically challenged one. El Supremo Mar 2013 #27

Dude! You have been reading Harry Turtledove again? Nipponese?? madinmaryland Mar 2013 #29

I did that for your Anglophiled benefit. El Supremo Mar 2013 #33

Mrs Peel, we're needed Fumesucker Mar 2013 #24

I had an interesting thought the other day for a sci-fi novel... Bonobo Mar 2013 #28

i'm sure it will fly off the shelves in korea, china arely staircase Mar 2013 #38

Yes and what was Japanese imperialism a patriotic reaction to? Bonobo Mar 2013 #41

you answer your own question arely staircase Mar 2013 #44

Yup, that was what they thought they needed to do to be on an equal footing with the West. Bonobo Mar 2013 #45

"A pound of foolishness". Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #31

"bullet free streets in America..." Absolutely DELUSIONAL. Is there a word BEYOND delusion? cherokeeprogressive Mar 2013 #32

There could be a zillion guns. But I am working toward a bullet free America. graham4anything Mar 2013 #46

"Can you imagine if FDR decided not to bother avenging Pearl Harbor?" ThomThom Mar 2013 #37

Avengers Assemble! white_wolf Mar 2013 #40

The Onion just keeps getting better cthulu2016 Mar 2013 #43

Suppose they gave a war and noone came? LWolf Mar 2013 #48