PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
So we don't clog other threads, feel free to divert such discussions here any time they happen.
They broke Japanese diplomatic codes, not the high end naval ones. And even if they broke Japanese naval codes, Kiddo Butai kept radio silence during the voyage, so American eavesdropping would be useless.
Roosevelt wanted war with Germany not Japan. He and his advisors believed that sanctions would bring the Japanese warmachine to it's knees and that chance of war was low.
Osama was dying of his kidney condition, his execution allowed them to neatly tie up a loose end.
They'd already broken the Japanese codes by then.
They broke Japanese diplomatic codes, not the high end naval ones. And even if they broke Japanese naval codes, Kiddo Butai kept radio silence during the voyage, so American eavesdropping would be useless.
But he let Pearl Harbor happen so America could be dragged into the war.
Roosevelt wanted war with Germany not Japan. He and his advisors believed that sanctions would bring the Japanese warmachine to it's knees and that chance of war was low.
Osama is probably somewhere in Arizona, drinking tea and playing chess with Bush.
Osama was dying of his kidney condition, his execution allowed them to neatly tie up a loose end.