"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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Pearl Harbour didn't happen in a vacuum, in spite of what you seem
to think. The Japanese didn't get up one morning and decide to
attack Pearl Harbour because they had nothing else to do.


True, it happened because the Japanese thought that they were racially
superior to all others, and therefore had a "right" to rule all of Asia.

They had watched the West colonise virtually all of SE Asia and decided
that they wanted a slice of the action.


Yamamoto was right: "All we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and
fill
him with a terrible resolve." He didn't live to see it, but he was
right.
I had relatives who were either in the Pacific or headed there from
Europe.
To them, Truman made the right decision: drop the bomb and end the war
ASAP.
No bomb means invasion, and look at Saipan, Luzon, Iwo Jima, and
Okinawa
to see what that would've been like. I like to think that I'm here
because
my grandfather didn't go to Kyushu in Nov '45.

Oh God spare me the grandfather story yet again.

As you have spared yourself any sort of historical knowledge?

I'm certainly spared any historical knowledge when I read the
drivel you post.


Al Minyard