Oh believe me, the Japanese know this was a mistake and they view World War II as a period of shame and it is hardly mentioned in their textbooks. What I am trying to get across to you is the fact that somehow, some way, Japan would have attacked the United States. That was the mentality of Japan at the time, the only Japanese REMF that had an idea of what PH would do was Yamamoto "I fear we have only awaken a sleeping giant." I believe that war was inevitable, it's just that PH pushed us over the edge, once every other nation fell to the German Machine (assuming that they waged a perfect war and won) the U.S. would have had to fought someone! You think Hitler or Tojo would sit on their thumbs with the United States still there, able to oppose them, I think not. War would have come to the U.S. either with allies still remaining or with no allies still remaining, I just thank God that it was the former and not the latter.
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