Pearl Harbor was so long ago, people often fuggedaboutit.

Damn Germans.

Damned Germans

So close!

We have to declare war on Japan before they destroy our way of life!

More Obama fail!

Brooklyn? Do I smell a hipster war thread?

Cormee: So close!

It was the "ed" you added that threw it off.

cptrios: Brooklyn? Do I smell a hipster war thread?

no you smell the piss in the streets

The Chineese bombed Pearl Harbor and the Jews sunk the Titanic.

"Iceberg," Rosenberg", whats the difference?!

They hate us for our freedoms.

Perhaps in 50 more years, Afghanistan and Iraq will be thriving economies which develop state of the art technologies that trounce our products in quality. And they will be close trading partners with us, and Americans will go over there and enjoy their culture which they built from the ashes of their cities after the war. And that we'll be said to have mocha fever and want to intermingle with the hottest of them.

70 years is a long time, and Japan has all but erased the physical effects of WWII. Will our current enemies be so resilient?

AverageAmericanGuy: Perhaps in 50 more years, Afghanistan and Iraq will be thriving economies which develop state of the art technologies that trounce our products in quality. And they will be close trading partners with us, and Americans will go over there and enjoy their culture which they built from the ashes of their cities after the war. And that we'll be said to have mocha fever and want to intermingle with the hottest of them.

70 years is a long time, and Japan has all but erased the physical effects of WWII. Will our current enemies be so resilient?

No.

What you did there- I sees it, subby.

EWreckedSean: AverageAmericanGuy: Perhaps in 50 more years, Afghanistan and Iraq will be thriving economies which develop state of the art technologies that trounce our products in quality. And they will be close trading partners with us, and Americans will go over there and enjoy their culture which they built from the ashes of their cities after the war. And that we'll be said to have mocha fever and want to intermingle with the hottest of them.

70 years is a long time, and Japan has all but erased the physical effects of WWII. Will our current enemies be so resilient?

No.

Sadly, I think you're probably right.

Cue the images of asian Beasty Boys impersonators...

EWreckedSean: AverageAmericanGuy: Perhaps in 50 more years, Afghanistan and Iraq will be thriving economies which develop state of the art technologies that trounce our products in quality. And they will be close trading partners with us, and Americans will go over there and enjoy their culture which they built from the ashes of their cities after the war. And that we'll be said to have mocha fever and want to intermingle with the hottest of them.

70 years is a long time, and Japan has all but erased the physical effects of WWII. Will our current enemies be so resilient?

No.

Not without the Marhall plan or its equivalent in Iraq and Afghanistan - we made some serious investments in both countries. Seems to have worked out pretty damn well.

GLASS PARKING L--- oh wait a minute....

BishopHatto: "Iceberg," Rosenberg", whats the difference?!

One is composed of thousands of tons of ice. The other gives up the secret to unlocking the equivalent of thousands of tons of TNT.

Never fear, Brooklyn's here!

/how am I the only one who thought this

cptrios: Brooklyn? Do I smell a hipster war thread?

Real hipsters got into WWII in 1937, before it was cool.

The History Channel insisted on showing the Michael Bay abortion last night, so I popped in the DVD of Tora! Tora! Tora!

I went to youtube to find a Pearl Harbor mashup this morning for a laugh. I ended up watching Team America's Pearl Harbor sucked song. Which lead me to some other Team America clips including this: Matt Damon (new window,not a RR)

Happy Pearl Harbor day Matt Damon!

We believe this country may be developing a weapon of mass destruction, so we must make a preemptive strike.

*This statement may be morally correct depending on the definition of "we".

/and we're off

My grandfather was lucky, he was state side the entire war getting an edumacation in engineering from the Navy that would later allow him to work on putting up the radar chain along the US/Canada border, the B-36 bomber, for Honeywell computers when they still made computers, for IBM in working with the guidance computers for Apollo and so forth. His brother though, also in the navy survived a kamikaze attack that killed half the crew on a destroyer.

But don't forget about Cotton, and Fatty.

Less we forget...



/To the brave men and women who had to experience that day, I salute you.

70 years is a damn long time. back then, people didn't refer to the President as the socialist antichrist for trying to fix the economy.

Imagine if Fark would have been around back then. People would be saying how the USA deserved it and then saying it was an illegal war when we got involved. I can't even imagine the derp that would have ensued after the nukes were dropped.

sid244: Less we forget...

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/To the brave men and women who had to experience that day, I salute you.

^Also so much this.

milowent: 70 years is a damn long time. back then, people didn't refer to the President as the socialist antichrist for trying to fix the economy.

Someone doesn't know their history very well.

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ThisNameSux: Imagine if Fark would have been around back then. People would be saying how the USA deserved it and then saying it was an illegal war when we got involved. I can't even imagine the derp that would have ensued after the nukes were dropped.

Look how dumb you are.

milowent: 70 years is a damn long time. back then, people didn't refer to the President as the socialist antichrist for trying to fix the economy.

Not sure if serious. Read up on Father Coughlin (new window), and some of the Republican politicians of the 1930s. Given the standards of the time, they were at least as bad as Republicans today.

ThisNameSux: Imagine if Fark would have been around back then. People would be saying how the USA deserved it and then saying it was an illegal war when we got involved. I can't even imagine the derp that would have ensued after the nukes were dropped.

War is a horrible thing, as much as WWII is presented as a "just" war that doesn't mean the people fighting it weren't monsters on both sides. Then again, that's the point of war. To make the other bastard die for his country rather than dying for yours, as that crazy bastard Patton said.Its understandable in hind sight though, the Japanese were especially easy to dehumanize. It especially helped that from our perspective at the time they were especially brutal, but now 70 years later they're our strongest ally in Asia and the great creator of all things cool and weird.

ThisNameSux: Imagine if Fark would have been around back then. People would be saying how the USA deserved it and then saying it was an illegal war when we got involved. I can't even imagine the derp that would have ensued after the nukes were dropped.

Are there Pearl Harbor Truthers?

ThisNameSux: Imagine if Fark would have been around back then. People would be saying how the USA deserved it and then saying it was an illegal war when we got involved. I can't even imagine the derp that would have ensued after the nukes were dropped.

Yep. Because that is the exact same situation as Iraq. I remember when Saddam ordered those Iraqi military planes with Iraqi markings painted on them to fly into the WTC and Pentagon. And I also remember how Congress voted to formally declare war on Iraq after that happened.

God you're an idiot.

Japan was punished severely for that in the end, and we let the Soviets take care of the Nazi bastards. Either way, unlike WW1, I can't see either country starting shiat like that up again.

HMS_Blinkin: milowent: 70 years is a damn long time. back then, people didn't refer to the President as the socialist antichrist for trying to fix the economy.

Not sure if serious. Read up on Father Coughlin (new window), and some of the Republican politicians of the 1930s. Given the standards of the time, they were at least as bad as Republicans today.

This. People think that today is always the worst, but that's because of nostalgia among those who should know better because they lived through those times, and a lack of experience from those who don't.

This will come off as trolling but....

I feel bad for the guys who were caught off guard but this wasn't some kind of horrific tragedy.

These were men who were in the military of a nation that was supporting a war against the Japanese. The US was providing the Chinese with volunteers and support and the US and the west enacted steel and oil embargos against the Japanese specifically to reduce their capacity for war against China. So the Japanese attacked a US military installation that just so happened to be housing the bulk of the US fleet. It wasn't a party, but it wasn't exactly 9/11 either.

GungFu: ThisNameSux: Imagine if Fark would have been around back then. People would be saying how the USA deserved it and then saying it was an illegal war when we got involved. I can't even imagine the derp that would have ensued after the nukes were dropped.

Are there Pearl Harbor Truthers?

You're joking, right? Just in case you aren't, the answer is "Hell yes, there are, and have been since roughly 1942". Here, you can read about it at this Wikipedia page: Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory

Beluga Heights: This will come off as trolling but....

I feel bad for the guys who were caught off guard but this wasn't some kind of horrific tragedy.

These were men who were in the military of a nation that was supporting a war against the Japanese. The US was providing the Chinese with volunteers and support and the US and the west enacted steel and oil embargos against the Japanese specifically to reduce their capacity for war against China. So the Japanese attacked a US military installation that just so happened to be housing the bulk of the US fleet. It wasn't a party, but it wasn't exactly 9/11 either.

It was also a delaying measure so they could roll up Manchuria and the Philippines before the US could react.

Gee thanks America, it only took losing 2,400 people for you to join your allies in the war.

Malcolm_Sex: Gee thanks America, it only took losing 2,400 people for you to join your allies in the war.

Liberals wanted to fight oppression and Nazis, conservatives preached isolationism.