USA Football Victory Over Japan “Revenge for Pearl Harbor”

Those filthy Americans sure love to screw over everything.

Sadly, the soccer games ended the same way the current america is right now. Being overrun by Mexicans :p

Morons outnumber our nation 10-1. I'm being optimistic in hoping that the ones snagging gold medals for our nation are part of that 1 >.>

Just idiots trolling. Most rednecks are NFL fans, and don't give a rat's ass about soccer. (Which the rest of the world calls "football")

How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor
by Robert Higgs
article source: independent(dot)org
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933, the U.S. government fell under the control of a man who disliked the Japanese and harbored a romantic affection for the Chinese because, some writers have speculated, Roosevelt’s ancestors had made money in the China trade. Roosevelt also disliked the Germans, and he tended to favor the British in his personal relations and in world affairs. He did not pay much attention to foreign policy, however, until his New Deal began to peter out in 1937. Afterward, he relied heavily on foreign policy to fulfill his political ambitions, including his desire for reelection to an unprecedented third term(before term limits were put in place).

When Germany began to rearm and to seek Lebensraum aggressively in the late 1930s, the Roosevelt administration cooperated closely with the British and the French in measures to oppose German expansion. After World War II commenced in 1939, this U.S. assistance grew ever greater and included such measures as the so-called destroyer deal and the deceptively named Lend-Lease program. In anticipation of U.S. entry into the war, British and U.S. military staffs secretly formulated plans for joint operations. U.S. forces sought to create a war-justifying incident by cooperating with the British navy in attacks on German U-boats in the north Atlantic, but Hitler refused to take the bait, thus denying Roosevelt the pretext he craved for making the United States a full-fledged, declared belligerent—an end that the great majority of Americans opposed.

In June 1940, Henry L. Stimson, who had been secretary of war under Taft and secretary of state under Hoover, became secretary of war again. Stimson was a lion of the Anglophile, northeastern upper crust and no friend of the Japanese. In support of the so-called Open Door Policy for China, Stimson favored the use of economic sanctions to obstruct Japan’s advance in Asia. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes vigorously endorsed this policy. Roosevelt hoped that such sanctions would goad the Japanese into making a rash mistake by launching a war against the United States, which would bring in Germany because Japan and Germany were allied.

Accordingly, the Roosevelt administration, while curtly dismissing Japanese diplomatic overtures to harmonize relations, imposed a series of increasingly stringent economic sanctions on Japan. In 1939 the United States terminated the 1911 commercial treaty with Japan. “On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this authority, “[o]n July 31, exports of aviation motor fuels and lubricants and No. 1 heavy melting iron and steel scrap were restricted.” Next, in a move aimed at Japan, Roosevelt slapped an embargo, effective October 16, “on all exports of scrap iron and steel to destinations other than Britain and the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Finally, on July 26, 1941, Roosevelt “froze Japanese assets in the United States, thus bringing commercial relations between the nations to an effective end. One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.”[2] The British and the Dutch followed suit, embargoing exports to Japan from their colonies in southeast Asia.

An Untenable Position
Roosevelt and his subordinates knew they were putting Japan in an untenable position and that the Japanese government might well try to escape the stranglehold by going to war. Having broken the Japanese diplomatic code, the Americans knew, among many other things, what Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda had communicated to Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura on July 31: “Commercial and economic relations between Japan and third countries, led by England and the United States, are gradually becoming so horribly strained that we cannot endure it much longer. Consequently, our Empire, to save its very life, must take measures to secure the raw materials of the South Seas.”

Because American cryptographers had also broken the Japanese naval code, the leaders in Washington knew as well that Japan’s “measures” would include an attack on Pearl Harbor.[4] Yet they withheld this critical information from the commanders in Hawaii, who might have headed off the attack or prepared themselves to defend against it. That Roosevelt and his chieftains did not ring the tocsin makes perfect sense: after all, the impending attack constituted precisely what they had been seeking for a long time. As Stimson confided to his diary after a meeting of the war cabinet on November 25, “The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.” After the attack, Stimson confessed that “my first feeling was of relief ... that a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people.

It's actually pretty funny, how most of them mention Pearl Harbor when in fact, they've never been there nor were they even born when it happened.

The only thing that's funnier, is when they're going to play on their Wii or PlayStation after writing so much bullshit.

Okay, it's actually not funny at all.
It's sad, it really is.
But looking on the bright side: I never expected much from humanity at all, and believe me: this kind of stupidity, arrogance, intolerance and hypocrisy is not exclusive to Americans, people from all countries have it.
It's just that the American idiots believe they could become superstars in Hollywood, if they had their name on the net, while the idiots from the rest of the world don't.

That's they these people are trolling.... if rednecks are so stoooopid how the hell do they know about Pearl Harbor and the dates? Unless there is some strange school system in the South the focuses on Pearl Harbor is extremely unlikely that this has any sort of serious tone to it.

I think this is just trolling to get people talking.

WOW, I'm flabbergasted by this, really ?

Why be so inconsiderate, If anything America Launched Atomic Bombs at Japan, and I don't see people back lashing the USA.

No, am still surprised by this. Fucking Stupidity.
And it's not only Rednecks making those remarks.

I know right. I don't like hate or racist.

FILTHY AMERIFAGS! GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU FUCKEN INVADERS!
GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU FUCKEN INVADERS!
GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU FUCKEN INVADERS!
GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU FUCKEN INVADERS!
GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU FUCKEN INVADERS!
GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU FUCKEN INVADERS!
GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU FUCKEN INVADERS!

I want a deathnote literally. id swap eyes asap and rid this world of the amerifags once and for all. men, woman, children gone. dont care what race anyone who lives in that patriotic nation deserves death.

Some organization should keep these names in check so that they can't leave their beloved country for whatever reason.

Sadly, I don't think they're all rednecks; But I certainly agree with you. I sure do hope America gets bombed, because if we get revenge and wipeout an entire nation, we'll have idiots(like these)acting dreadfully to any survivors, claiming retribution.

"Just trolling" does not make it ok either. Someone's just butthurt mad.

At least one of those "rednecks" looked black. Maybe he's the redneck's porch monkey?

maybe this Karma... or not?, Japanese, "a little" racist?