Was Pearl Harbor sacrificed?

Question

Any uncovered documents on that issue?

Is this issue a tabu in USA? Why is it still a controversy, even after the 50 years have passed?

Answer 1

Yes it was and to an extent that was not anticipated. FDR had hoped the Pacific fleet would easily repulse the attack with minimum damage and casualties. Unfortunately, he had not anticipated the laxity of the training at the base. He was wise enough not to hazard the carriers. Not that he had any idea of their coming role in the Pacific theater, but because they were the most expensive ships in the fleet.

Answer 2

Good, Bad or Indifferent, I believe it was sacrificed. How long could we sit around waiting till Berlin built the bomb and used it on all of Europe and then us. There was a war and millions of decent human beings were being tortured and slaughtered. To wait around for Congress to make a decision based on how much money they had in their pocket under the table, all of America would have been the sacrifice sooner than later. Read about the science race at that time? We were lucky to get those B-52 bombers up and running at the right time. We needed Montgomery desperately to shield our side all over Europe and Africa. It was well known that Roosevelt did not need money but his cronies did, and he was in the parlay position of appeasing all. Of course he is president and that is his job, like signing with Hitler in 1939, he and Churchill. Then Hitler killed 500,000 thousand non-Jewish polish people, Armenian, etc., Sure sacrifices are made without a word like 9/11, except before Bush took office he told everyone on that he was going after Saddam in Iraq to avenge his father and pick up where his father left off. He also proclaimed he was going to teach China a lesson that America will be a force to reckon with? These things are what happen when you let others do your bidding for you and you don't vote or care, and you don't want to know or be bothered?

Answer 3

In retrospect, I suspect that it was. Note that the carriers were absent from Pearl when the Japanese attacked. Everyone knew by then that battleships were obsolete and therefore expendable. It is rumored that, before Pearl Harbor, FDR had an old navy tub brought up the Mekong River and outfitted to look like a British Merchant Marine vessel, thinking that the Germans would attack it and we could claim that Germany attacked a commissioned US war vessel thus giving us an excuse to enter the war.

Answer 4

That is pretty much general knowledge now. If it had not happened when it did, all of Europe would have fallen and we would have been next. Without Pearl Harbor, congress would not have allowed our participation. It HAD to happen in order to save us.

It certainly was NOT a surprise....We had broken the codes long before! We KNEW it was coming....the top government officials just had to keep it secret so that it would have a dramatic effect on the world. I think we did UNDERestimate the jap's ability to deliver a strong blow.

Answer 5

I don't know of any proof, but many have suspected
such, for a long time now.
Roosevelt's 1940 campaign promise was to keep the
USA out of the war.
It was to be an ill-fated promise.
Bit by bit, evidence mounted that the winds of war
would eventually reach America.
This put FDR between the proverbial "rock and hard
place."
Thus, many historians believe Pearl Harbor was
Roosevelt's scape goat, and our nation's salvation..

Answer 6

If it was, then the question is "Was the lie noble?"

Was it acceptable to allow death and destruction of Americans to get us into a war with the axis powers?

What noble lie will come next to keep us at war with Islam?

Bio-terrorism? Atomic event? Contamination of our food supply?

There is a necessary trust between the Citizenry and the government. When it is violated (as it has been since 1913), it must be restored through impeachment and restoration of the violating institutions involved.

Such a restoration makes whatever lie, be it noble or dishonorable, unnecessary.

To win the war against Islam, it will be necessary to first restore the economy and institutions of the united States of America to Constitutional specifications and restore the faith of the people.

Only then can we act as a unified country and overcome our enemy.
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Answer 7

Why do you think they compare Pearl Harbor to 9 / 11 ? Both were allowed to happen...Does anyone really think a whole fleet of Japanese ships can travel all the way from Japan without being noticed ?

Answer 8

A lot of people are convinced of it, but there is no documentation to prove it, though there are clues. It's also denied by lots of people. Eleanor Roosevelt said its BS. Read about it in the Wikipedia under the heading "Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge debate".

Answer 9

Pearl Harbor was bombed in a sneak attack by Japan. Admiral Yamamoto figured that the only way Japan could defeat America would be to sink most of the American fleet without declaring war. By international law, this is mass murder.
I don't know how this could be called a sacrifice in any way. If any thing, it might be called the beginning of the sacrifice of Japan.

Answer 10

yes i do they was stuck out there unprotected they sure had.a lot people wanted a war between the united states and japan.it was about econmony.they couldn,t let japan take over united stated.