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Originally Posted by tw
.... which is why I knew sooner or later I was going to have to again explain the concept.
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It's not a matter of trying to explain the concept. It's a matter of you getting the concept totally wrong. You so desperately attempt to put the US in a bad light that you'll reach for any bad thing you can find, and this time your reach has exceeded your grasp.
Even the little teeny point of congruency you're attempting to reach for -- that Japan attacked the US to keep the US out of the war, and the US attacked Iraq to forestall future aggressive endeavors -- isn't really all that similar. And it doesn't matter; the reasons for Japan attacking the US weren't what made Pearl Harbor so terrible in the minds of Americans. The mere fact of the attack was one reason, and the manner was another.