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Dit artikel is deel van de DaanSpeak-serie and Pearl Harbor by Robert B. Stinnett Roosevelt lokte Pearl Harbor
uit, '[...] The real heart of the book is the argument that the attack on Pearl Harbor was deliberately instigated by the Roosevelt Administration as a way of quickly bringing a unified America into the war. Stinnett begins his case by quoting a policy memo written by Lt. Cdr. Arthur McCullum listing eight actions designed to incite a military action by Japan, including such actions as the blocking of the sale of oil to the Japanese, maintaining a heavy US naval presence in the Pacific, and supporting Chiang Kai-shek in China. After showing how this plan was carried out, he then goes on to show how this effort systematically led up to Pearl Harbor. Although too little is made of the context in which Roosevelt apparently made the decision to allow the attack to go unchecked (it is only in the closing sections that this issue is even discussed), Stinnett has left no stone unturned in this account, which should rewrite the historical record of WWII. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.' Zie Amazon voor deze en andere recensies. Uit de flaptekst: "This great question of Pearl Harbor - what did we know and when did we know It? - has been argued for years. At first, a panel created by FDR concluded that we had no advance warning and should blame only the local commanders for lack of preparedness. More recently, historians such as John Toland and Edward Beach have concluded that some intelligence was intercepted. Finally, just months ago, the Senate voted to exonerate Hawaii commanders Admiral Kimmel and Lieutenant General Short, after the Pentagon officially declared that blame should be "broadly shared." But no investigator has ever been able to prove that foreknowledge of the attack existed at the highest levels." "Until now, After decades of Freedom of Information Act
requests, Robert B. Stinnett has gathered the long-hidden evidence that
shatters every shibboleth of Pearl Harbor. It shows that not only was
the attack expected. It was deliberately provoked through an eight-step
program devised by the Navy."' De New
York Review of Books scheldt Stinnett in een vier-pagina's lange boekrecensie
uit voor revisionist:
'He maintains that newly released documents, new interviews with aging
survivors, and government suppression of papers support his view.
But he misreads the record, misunderstands intelligence, mishandles facts,
and misdirects readers.' Als het zo is dat Roosevelt wist van de aanval en die nodig had als excuus, dan is die truuk niet voor het laatst gebruikt. Denk maar aan de recent bij de VPRO uitgezonden documentaire The Vietnam war - Descent into Hell, waarin werd vertelt hoe de Vietnamezen werden geprovoceerd door de Amerikanen die een excuus nodig hadden om een oorlog in Vietnam te beginnen. Een citaat uit een artikel van het online tijschrift Vietnam: 'With fresh evidence now available, claims that the Tonkin Gulf incident was deliberately provoked gain new plausibility.' Jaren later was er de Golfoorlog, as brought to you by George Bush Sr. en PR-bedrijf Hill & Knowlton. Dat was allemaal te zien in de memorabele documentaire 'To Sell A War, which exposed a $10.7 million public relations campaign launched on behalf of the Kuwait Royal family to sell the American public on the Persian Gulf war.' Lees meer over deze PR-firma in dit artikel. De meest recente toepassing van het uitlokprincipe kan de oorlog in Joegoslavië zijn geweest. Ik kom er in de toekomst uitgebreid op terug, maar in het kort is hier iets te lezen over PR-bureau Ruder Finn dat die oorlog mee heeft helpen veroozaken. Er is uiteraard discussie hierover. Misschien wil je geen oorlog beginnen, maar wel op een andere wijze de media manipuleren, kijk dan op deze pagina van Ruder Finn: 'We serve the public interest through government, institutions and organizations'. Lees meer over het economisch machtsprincipe van de zogenoemde
'voortdurende oorlog' in deze
oude DaanSpeak. Dat principe kan ook de reden zijn geweest dat generaal
Schwarzkopf op het laatst werd teruggefloten. Pearl Harbor, the movie The Vietnam war - Descent into Hell |