December 7, 1941

[PornoDoggy]

You can denounce Howard Zinn as a peace activist all you want, Mr. Academic Genius, but you sound like a recording of him. Everything wrong with the world post 1898 is, of course, America's fault. Subsitute "liberal" for "America", and you could be 12clicks, Torone, or MikeAI.

It is truly unfortunate that MORE people in the United States, particularly the 96 in the U.S. Senate, didn't respond to the "joining of the Tripartite pact with Italy and Germany" as a call for rearmament - but the grandfathers of the current unilateral interventionists clung to their isolationist fantasy out of naive idealism (or idealogical empathy).

Roosevelt merely did what Coolidge or Hoover should have done, and he waited far too long (in part because he was forced to). I'm hardly a fan of the way U.S. foreign policy is conducted, but an attempt to compare the 1941 embargo with a hypothetical embargo today is absurd at best.

And if folks did cut off the oil today ... the reaction of the U.S. would hardly be a banzii charge.