The Republic of Fore wrote:1. Then It's fully within the US's right to suffer the consequences of that choice.
And they reserve the right to retaliation. Maybe the Japanese should have considered not building a new empire.
2. Better than sending 400,000 of our young men to die for the benefit of foreigners.
Who benefited from Pearl Harbor? And the US had the right to self-defense. Should it have stood aside and let Japan occupy Hawaii?
3. It wasn't a US state, sorry should have made that clear.
Maybe the Japanese Empire shouldn't have invaded China in 1931, then occupied French Indochina in 1940, then attacked Pearl Harbor to eliminate US presence in the Asia Pacific so that they could enjoy their empire-building fantasy.
4. No, but in a hypothetical scenario if someone tried to cut off our oil supply do you really think we'd hesitate to turn them into dust? Because if so, I have a bridge to sell you.
Why should a nation kill itself by cutting off its own oil export to the world?