(May 15, 2020 at 7:05 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Pearl was straight up brilliant. Fun fact, one of (if not the) chief architects of the attack was one of the most vocal critics of war with the us. In the end, seeing that conflict was inevitable, he resigned himself to the necessity of giving his country the best position it could open with.
Yeah, Yamamoto Isoruku threatened to resign if the raid on Pearl Harbor was not authorized. He said that it would not be enough to defeat the US in the Pacific, they would have to march into Washington and dictate surrender terms in the White House.
BUT he said jack shit about any sleeping giant.
