tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post3141952800331518284..comments2023-10-06T12:28:48.452-04:00Comments on Spinning Clio: Pearl Harbor and 9/11: The Conspiracy Theorist's "If...Then..." StatementMarchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09263223781051175207noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-71344964769048322006-12-28T03:44:00.000-05:002006-12-28T03:44:00.000-05:00What most people tend to forget is that FDR wasn’t...What most people tend to forget is that FDR wasn’t focusing on Japan before the attack on Pearl Harbour. His main concern was Hitler and the British/Soviet struggle to keep him at bay. That is why he came up with “the Destroyers for Bases Agreement” and the “Lend-Lease agreement”. He even let US ships escort British convoys as far as Iceland. On October 31, 1941 the USS Reuben James fell victim to a German torpedo. One could say that Germany and the US were already fighting an undeclared war during the fall of 1941. <br />Eventually the attack on Pearl Harbour pulled the US into a war, not with Germany but with Japan. It was not the war FDR wanted. He was strongly committed to the Allied cause and the defeat of Nazi Germany had his priority. He would have a big problem explaining his fellow countryman that he would not commit his main effort against the Japanese attacker but against a country that was technically speaking not at war with the US; Germany. Luckily Hitler solved that problem for FDR within a few days, on the 11th of December 1941 Germany declared war on the US. (Apart from the attack on the USSR perhaps the greatest blunder Hitler made during WW2; Germany had only obligations with Japan concerning defence, not attack)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-40524585962930791862006-12-10T21:47:00.000-05:002006-12-10T21:47:00.000-05:00I think his point is that FDR could have prepared ...I think his point is that FDR could have prepared and shot down the Japanese just before Pearl Harbor was reached, with almost the same effect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-21644730149705005052006-12-09T16:06:00.000-05:002006-12-09T16:06:00.000-05:00There would be no need to let us get clobbered? A...There would be no need to let us get clobbered? After Pearl Harbor, everyone in America wanted to join the war. Before that, NO ONE did!<br />Watch the History Channel, it now admits that FDR knew about the attack and let it happen. He intercepted the "Death Blow" message and removed the translation machines from Pearl Harbor. <br />There is no "conspiracy theory". FDR knew of the attack and let it happen so the Americans would be ready to go to war. (sound familiar at all?)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12269457098538746737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-66609550252037082612006-12-09T06:50:00.000-05:002006-12-09T06:50:00.000-05:00The conspiracy theory about FDR and Pearl Harbor d...The conspiracy theory about FDR and Pearl Harbor doesn't even make sense on the face of it.<br /><br />Even if he had known about the attack and known exactly when it would occur, Roosevelt would have scrambled the American military and fended it off. The U.S. ould thenceforth be at war with Japan--and FDR would look like a hero.<br /><br />So, even if FDR knew, there would be no need to let us get clobbered.<br /><br />As for 9/11, it was sheer, mind-boggling incompetence at the top--the same fecklessness and incompetence that lost New Orleans.Perry Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702386257163449419noreply@blogger.com