Nobody dreamed Pearl would have been the target.

Nonsense. Ever hear of Billy Mitchell?

Numerous people envisioned an attack on Pearl Harbor. Claire Chennault
was part of war games in the early 1930s that gamed such an attack.

Of course, people also envisioned an attack on the Panama Canal and
New York City. After the attack, whether it's Pearl Harbor or the
World Trade Center, the conspiracy buffs trot out the clear trail of
warning that *any fool* would have noticed. It seems very obvious to
us now that the Japanese would attack Hawaii. It didn't seem obvious
in December 1941.

(What was obvious was that they would attack Malaya, Indonesia, and
the Philippines. Nobody there was prepared, either. And if somebody
was, little good it did him.)


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