[SoCal Pubbie]

I was going to post that the “America forced the poor, helpless Japanese Empire to lash out after being cruelly cut off from desperately needed resources by that dastardly FDR” contingent was alive and well on Free Republic, but you did it for me first. Of course, that same faction never mentions that the Japanese had already invaded China, attacked an American warship on the Yangtze River, annexed Korea, raped Nanking, allied itself with Nazi Germany, and generally stomped around Southeast Asia like a bully stealing lunch money in the schoolyard, but hey, who are we to judge, right?

[Count of Monte Fisto]

Of course, that same faction never mentions that the Japanese had already invaded China, attacked an American warship on the Yangtze River, annexed Korea, raped Nanking, allied itself with Nazi Germany, and generally stomped around Southeast Asia like a bully stealing lunch money in the schoolyard, but hey, who are we to judge, right?

Uncle Joe Stalin made the Japanese look like bedwetting school girls but FDR gave Stalin Manchuria and North Korea, not to mention Poland(!), Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, etc.,etc., and practically ensured the Communuization of China and the deaths of ten of millions Chinese.