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Debate:Was it wrong for him to allow the attack in order to wake up the American public and motivate Americans to fight and win the war? (view source)
Revision as of 21:47, May 7, 2007
, 21:47, May 7, 2007coulda woulda shoulda
: Well said. The conspiracy theories around this are similar to the conspiracies that pop up whenever a tragic event of this magnitude occurs (such as JFKs assasination or the 9/11 attack). The horror is so inconceivable that some people try to make sense of it by creating outside forces that made it inevitable. When in reality, the truth is that sometimes bad things just happen. And its usually because someone made a bad assumption (Japan would attack the Phillipines instead of Hawaii), a bad decision (Kennedy having a Secret Service agent get off of the car) or a bad choice (not giving more weight to certain pre-9/11 intelligence). It's not a matter of malice or ill intent. It's human error.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 13:21, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
: Well said. The conspiracy theories around this are similar to the conspiracies that pop up whenever a tragic event of this magnitude occurs (such as JFKs assasination or the 9/11 attack). The horror is so inconceivable that some people try to make sense of it by creating outside forces that made it inevitable. When in reality, the truth is that sometimes bad things just happen. And its usually because someone made a bad assumption (Japan would attack the Phillipines instead of Hawaii), a bad decision (Kennedy having a Secret Service agent get off of the car) or a bad choice (not giving more weight to certain pre-9/11 intelligence). It's not a matter of malice or ill intent. It's human error.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 13:21, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
::*''The Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor instead demonstrated the Japanese were too smart for this. They knew that overwhelming force would eventually fall upon them if they fought the United States, so the only plan that made sense was to disable the largest percentage of that force possible at the outset. ''
:::Actually there was guarantee Japan was going to attack the US at all. There were two other very much more likely scenarios, (1) finish off British presence in the Pacific region, and then (2) help the Germans finish off the Soviet Union by invading through Manchuria. The US public even in 1941 was intent upon staying out of the war. Combined, Germany and Japan could have defeated both Britain and the USSR, with the US remaining neutral. But the Axis alliance suffered from a lack of coordination, committment, and real planning together. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 17:47, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
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