Bobby. wrote on Dec 9^th, 2024 at 2:40pm:

The US was attacked by a foreign power. As the US president, Roosevelt was bound by his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 9^th, 2024 at 3:39pm:

Yep, but he didn't do it to save Australians from the Japanese...

Australia just happened to be the top spot for a launching pad.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 9^th, 2024 at 4:50pm:


Brian - you know nothing:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Darwin


The two Japanese air raids were the first, and largest,
of more than 100 air raids against Australia during 1942–1943.
The event happened just four days after the Fall of Singapore,
when a combined Commonwealth force surrendered to the Japanese,
the largest surrender in British history.


The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin,[4] on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.[5] On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin Harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II.

Darwin was lightly defended relative to the size of the attack, and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties. More than half of Darwin's civilian population left the area permanently, before or immediately after the attack.[6][

The Japanese plan was to isolate Australia while forming a defensive ring - AustNZed were never under threat of direct invasion.

The 'island hopping strategy' to break the defensive ring along a vulnerable path was the optimum choice, along with the incredible success of the US submarine campaign.  Burma, China and New Guinea North were essentially holding actions and cost a lot of casualties for not much real gain, and re-taking the Philippines, though a humanitarian necessity, was a costly side show.

I've often wondered what the result would have been from carpet bombing Iwo Jima with napalm... not to mention carpet bombing the island with the radar station north of Iwo that cost so many lives, nearly including George Bush (Snr) ... one of the very few Allied Naval airmen rescued after being shot down there in an awful approach to target.

Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Dec 9^th, 2024 at 5:20pm:

You can only believe that through the prism of knowing of Japan's having drawn the US into war in 1941.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 9^th, 2024 at 5:22pm:



pin prick?

nonsense - it was part of over 100 major attacks.   

Bobby. wrote on Dec 9^th, 2024 at 5:35pm:


What affect did it have on the strategy of how the war was conducted?  Any, at all?  No, I didn't think so.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...