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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
Are you the ghost of Japanese genius who thought Pearl Harbour was a good idea? Obama's popularity and support would skyrocket if the Russians were so daft as to hit an American carrier. It would galvanize the country from California to Texas to Florida, blue/red/purple states.
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Strategically Pearl Harbour was a brilliant idea, but the execution and intelligence left a lot to be desired. If the Japanese had hit Pearl Harbour and then waited for the American Carriers to return to knock them out, or had the intelligence assets to let them know where the Carriers were, the American's would have been knocked out of the war on the second day.
As it stood Japanese High Command knew that the war was un winnable.
But that attack was on American Soil,
This is entirely difference. Could Obama rally the nation, possibly the guy is a speaker. I just don't buy that the nation would rally around a war in the Ukraine that was proceeded by an invasion where no one was killed, or people were herded into extermination camps, I would bet that the public outcry would be enough war, get out people out of there, especially if the media is showing a burning carrier on the 6 o'clock news.
And lets be frank, Obama is no Roosevelt who was probably the best war time leader and strongest personality that the American's have ever had leading them.