Comprehensive research has shown not only that Washington knew in advance of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but that it deliberately withheld its foreknowledge from our commanders in Hawaii in the hope that the "surprise" attack would catapult the U.S. into World War II. By James Perloff
Pearl Harbor
Writing some 15 years after the Japanese attack, William F. Friedman said that the Battle of Pearl Harbor is still being fought but the adversaries this time are all Americans.
This statement is almost as true today as it was in the 1950s.
On a par with theories about the Kennedy Assassination, the attack on Pearl Harbor continues to draw allegations of conspiracy, treason, and cover-up. The number of books written about the attack, each purporting to tell the final truth, would fill a small library.
The following is not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of the Japanese attack on Hawaii. Instead, this article will try to draw together the earlier articles in this series about COMINT in the pre-war period, and tell the general story of December 7, 1941, the most momentous day for America in the Twentieth Century!
and i want to try to remind myself to remember both things, that you can t take it for granted, you have to fight back against it when you see it deployed again. because the confederate story feels a little bit like some vampire story. scholars keep driving a stake through its heart and saying, no, this is really about slavery, and it doesn t matter. it just keeps coming up as not about slavery. listen to what you said: scholars keep driving a stake through the heart. scholars. who cares about scholars? i think the school of interpretation took a brilliant turn very quickly, and that was disassociate this struggle from the institution of slavery. they weren t idiots, they knew they were out of step with the rest of the western world, so let s play down slavery, let s talk about high constitutional issues about whether the central government is powerful or the states, but that s not the key thing. the key thing is they picked the best person to focus on, and that s r.e. lee.
down sliv slavery, talk about constitutional issues whether the central government is powerfulment that s not the key. the key thing is they picked the best person to focus on, r.e. lee. you can talk about him without talking slavery. you can talk about chancellorsville a victory against the odds, you don t cast it i think so much as the states against the federal power as against the underdog waging a gallant fight over constitutional issues and it doesn t have anything to do with slavery especially if you pretend that robert e. lee didn t like slavery. they are brilliant about that. they don t fool the generation that wore blue uniforms. they never lost sight what if the war was about. once that generation was fadinged became more and more easy to do that and when the two most important films in our history in terms of their social impact both give a straight lost cause take on things, birth of a nation and won with the wind, no other film close to those in their impact, th