Re: interfaith dialogue

Charles E Hardwidge wrote:
Another technically, Japan never attacked the United States.
Strictly speaking, Hawaii was an occupied territory at the time.
Attacking military ships sitting in their home port is an act of war, by
most definitions.

First, Commodore Perry opens Japan at the point of a naval gun. Then, when Japan is industrially softened up, it unilaterally cuts off oil and trade, calculating to the day when Japan would be forced to declare war, and ends it by dropping nukes on civilian populations.

You started it.


We provoked it for sure.
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