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Originally posted by gemoore
I don't think we've forgotten. It's just that ... gee, the U.S. didn't treat Japan very well, and so the Japanese leaders got frustrated and finally lashed out at the U.S. Pearl Harbor, in other words, was the fault of FDR and his administration. We brought it on ourselves.
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Whoa, dude.
The Japanese Empire was spreading throught Asia and Asia and teh Asian Pacific by military conquest. It was perpetrating horrid atrocities hundreds of thousands of Chinese--murdering and butchering men, women and chidlren for no apparent reason in Nanking and many other cities. The USA refused to sell oil to the Empire and the Japanese used that as an excuse to attack our interests in the Pacific.
It was so bad that even the Nazi representative to Japanese Army Command in China sent official dispatches to Berlin recounting the horror he saw and asking teh Reich to intervene on behalf of the Chinese.
There is plenty of historic documentation of the facts associated with Japanse expansion and our pitiful complaints against it.