Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

MicaelS

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24. Japan needed natural resources,

Wed Jan 4, 2012, 12:00 PM

Jan 2012

Last edited Fri Jan 6, 2012, 02:24 AM - Edit history (1)

They could have chosen to trade for them. They chose to take them by force.

Tom Clancy had one his characters state in one of his novels "War is just armed robbery on an industrial scale."

The Japanese were not noble, nor they victims of American, British or any foreign aggression. The Japanese were the warmongers during this period in history. They were armed robbers and they paid the cost for their folly. Considering how many people they murdered during their invasion and occupation of China, Korea and other areas in S.E. Asia, I think they got off a great deal easier than they could have.

A one point there discussion of using poison gas against the Japanese during Operation Downfall (the land invasion of Japan). We had stockpiled several thousand TONS of poison gas by the end of the war.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-online-forum/

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] TZ Dec 2011 OP

They've been around a very long time RZM Dec 2011 #1

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So that DavidSwanson guy has a reputation here? I think there's.. MarkCharles Dec 2011 #3

Not only that. Some people - doctors even - reject germ theory; heliocentrism too dmallind Dec 2011 #4

Well see I always thought the internet was making this stuff worse TZ Dec 2011 #5

Oh yes. This has been going on for a while LeftishBrit Dec 2011 #6

Try going to primary sources then. kristopher Dec 2011 #16

He WAS NOT desperate to go to Europe TZ Dec 2011 #18

Just claiming something is woo isn't "skepticism" kristopher Dec 2011 #19

Ummm TZ Dec 2011 #20

IIRC, there was a member MicaelS Dec 2011 #7

Yes, and they'll be mumbling it into their pureed veg at the old folks' home Warpy Dec 2011 #8

A Pearl Harbor truther!? Boston_Chemist Dec 2011 #9

I thought the argument was that... Odin2005 Dec 2011 #10

They had been in China for 10 years by then. kristopher Dec 2011 #14

Japan needed natural resources, MicaelS Jan 2012 #24

No argument about the cupability or the motives of the Japanese kristopher Jan 2012 #25

the site your linking to a hate site maddezmom Jan 2012 #32

I was unaware of this.. MicaelS Jan 2012 #33

thank you for editing maddezmom Jan 2012 #34

I heard about the "FDR Knew" theories a good 40 years ago in high school history class - LibertyLover Dec 2011 #11

'Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour?' LeftishBrit Dec 2011 #12

The Japanese and the Germans were allies. kristopher Dec 2011 #15

Completely wrong. onager Dec 2011 #21

Have you made a detailed study of the history of this era? kristopher Dec 2011 #13

Umm the person who told me TZ Dec 2011 #17

everyone knows that those Zeros were holograms Anarcho-Socialist Jan 2012 #22

Nothing more than a right-wing smear used against FDR PVnRT Jan 2012 #23

Whether he knew the specifics of Pearl Harbor or not, there is little doubt he planned to go to war. rug Jan 2012 #26

I wish the FDR race camps were just a conspiracy theory. nt ZombieHorde Jan 2012 #27

Japanese-Americans could have had it worse... MicaelS Jan 2012 #28

Your post reads like it is defending the FDR race camps. ZombieHorde Jan 2012 #29

No, I'm no defendng them.. MicaelS Jan 2012 #30

I am glad the misunderstanding is on my end. ZombieHorde Jan 2012 #31

Germans in the U.S. were interned in both WWI and WWII onager Jan 2012 #35

The UK certainly interned 'enemy aliens' LeftishBrit Jan 2012 #37

"FDR knew" should be added to the TOS... onager Jan 2012 #36

Actually, I think that counts as a TOS violation. laconicsax Jan 2012 #38

I had a question for you from the meta-discussion thread. kristopher Jan 2012 #40

I addressed your post on the Tripartite Pact elsewhere - in the help & meta-discussion forum kristopher Jan 2012 #39