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Originally posted by Q'alooaith:
You've got to take into account the situation in Japan at the time though, they had no real choice but to attack.
There's a lot that they don't teach you in history, and you have to look around for better accounts of the past, history is, as it always has been, writen by the victor.
You've just got to find the losers side to the story, was more to japans attack than a simple act of agression, it was an act of desperation, had it worked as planned things would have gone very diffrently.
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No, you have to understand that the Japanese in that time period didn't exactly have their heads on straight. They were the first to use the kamikazi pilots, they were responsible for the Rape of Nanking during their war with China where they actually had contests to see who could behead the most civilians. It
was an act of agression.
Now, given the fact that the reason behind it was that the US cut of their oil supply I believe it was, I still think that since they were at war with another country, they could've put off bombing Pearl Harbor and bringing a super power into the war.