Throwing rocks at a mountain

I've just finished reading the pearl harbor speech, by then president Franklin D. Roosevelt Knowing what I've learned about this altercation between the u.s. and japan. I feel that this speech was less than informative and only gave the basic knowledge as to what caused this attack, in some right it be compared to the media's reaction to 9/11. I am not in anyway saying that either of these actions are justified, however what I am saying is that we as Americans can sometimes be naive when thinking of our leaders and what they tell us.

Although very short, this speech is a prime example of how far our government will go when covering their own foul moves. I'm not completely sure that the government failed to inform Americans when we cut off japans petroleum connections (a strategy we used to keep japan out of Chinese war which worked because you need petroleum to run the artillery and machinery needed in war.) but I'm pretty sure it wasn't recanted until later years.

Time and time again we continue to do the rest of the world injustice and then when it treats us the way it should after constant one sided abuse we act as if their has been no wrong doing on our part. Once again I'm not saying what happend in pearl harbor or what happend in new york on 9/11 is justified. All I'm saying is that these two tragedy's were deffinitely provoked.

tell me what you think please