For all you people who still believe the long-discredited myth that FDR knew of the attack at Pearl Harbor in advance and did nothing to stop it in order to drag the US into war with Japan and Germany see the info presented here:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1889/did-roosevelt-know-in-advance-about-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-yet-say-nothing
While it certainly is not proof (what “proof” can be given 70 years after the fact that someone did not know something) the logic of the argument is pretty compelling.
It’s hard to believe the low level of intellectual discourse here. Let me paraphrase, “all wars were started by Democrats”. “No, all wars were started by Republicans” “Well the ‘good” wars may have been started by Democrats but that’s alright because they were justified”.
People, can’t we agree to agree that there are stupid people, scoundrels or worse in both parties? That said, let’s choose the ones we think may be the best from amongst all the parties represente.
I happen to be an engineer who was involved in DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics project which aims to bring prosthetic arms and hands out of the age of cable-actuated “claws” (some of my company’s work appeared on the cover of National Geographics Magazine back in January). I can’t believe the line of comments above that implies that the military (and explicitly the Republican Party) justifies the conflict on the grounds that it improves technology and stimulates job growth. The people within the military that we have dealt with on the prothetics project are ONLY concerned with improving the lot of people who have lost their limbs (a group not limited to soldiers, by the way; a friend of mine lost her arm to a bacterial infection she got from an exposed cut while gardening!).
The thing that intrigued me about this DB column was the explicit mention of a real company’s name (Otto Bock). Has product placement caome to the comics? And DB of all places?!
For all you people who still believe the long-discredited myth that FDR knew of the attack at Pearl Harbor in advance and did nothing to stop it in order to drag the US into war with Japan and Germany see the info presented here: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1889/did-roosevelt-know-in-advance-about-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-yet-say-nothing
While it certainly is not proof (what “proof” can be given 70 years after the fact that someone did not know something) the logic of the argument is pretty compelling.