Politics using crisis for moving an agenda forward is somehow wrong?
If we don't need a carbon tax, and you permit a crisis to worsen so what Obama calls as a "solution" is more likely to pass, yes that is wrong.
Roosevelt using Pearl Harbor to enter WW2 wrong?
When you take into account he did everything possible to anger the Japanese, yes. We froze their assets, seized their property, put innocent Japanese Americans in internment camps
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The exchange of American destroyers for British bases in the Caribbean and in Newfoundland in September, 1940. This was a clear departure from the requirements of neutrality and was also a violation of some specific American laws. Indeed, a conference of top government lawyers at the time decided that the destroyer deal put this country into the war, legally and morally.
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The freezing of Japanese assets in the United States on July 25, 1941. This step, which was followed by similar action on the part of Great Britain and the Netherlands East Indies, amounted to a commercial blockade of Japan. The warmaking potentialities of this decision had been recognized by Roosevelt himself shortly before it was taken. Addressing a delegation and explaining why oil exports to Japan had not been stopped previously, he said: "It was very essential, from our own selfish point of view of defense, to prevent a war from starting in the South Pacific. So our foreign policy was trying to stop a war from breaking out down there.... Now, if we cut the oil off, they [the Japanese] probably would have gone down to the Netherlands East Indies a year ago, and we would have had war."
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When the Japanese Prime Minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, appealed for a personal meeting with Roosevelt to discuss an amicable settlement in the Pacific, this appeal was rejected, despite the strong favorable recommendations of the American ambassador to Japan, Joseph C. Grew.
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Final step on the road to war in the Pacific was Secretary of State Hull's note to the Japanese government of November 26. Before sending this communication Hull had considered proposing a compromise formula which would have relaxed the blockade of Japan in return for Japanese withdrawal from southern Indochina and a limitation of Japanese forces in northern Indochina.
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However, Hull dropped this idea under pressure from British and Chinese sources. He dispatched a veritable ultimatum on November 26, which demanded unconditional Japanese withdrawal from China and from Indochina and insisted that there should be "no support of any government in China other than the National government [Chiang Kai-shek]." Hull admitted that this note took Japanese-American relations out of the realm of diplomacy and placed them in the hands of the military authorities.
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The negative Japanese reply to this note was delivered almost simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor. There was a strange and as yet unexplained failure to prepare for this attack by giving General Short and Admiral Kimmel, commanders on the spot, a clear picture of the imminent danger. As Secretary of War Stimson explained the American policy, it was to maneuver the Japanese into firing the first shot, and it may have been feared that openly precautionary and defensive moves on the part of Kimmel and Short would scare off the impending attack by the Japanese task force which was known to be on its way to some American outpost.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n6p19_Chamberlin.html
Truman using Sputnik to get the US into the space race was wrong?
I see nothing wrong with that, but that was not a natural disaster.
Bush using 9/11 to go after the Taliban is wrong?
Nothing wrong with going after the Taliban, but using it as a pretext to go to war with Iraq is. Also, using 9/11 to erode what Old Glory and America stands for(liberty/freedom) is wrong.
The Patriot, and Military Commissions acts, suspension of Habeas Corpus, eroding Posse Comitatus, the unwarranted surveillance of innocent Americans, the ability to detain you indefinitely under the suspicion you might be a terrorist/domestic terrorist.... All of these facts should be alarming to Americans. I remember when Obama touted on his campaign he was going to repeal the Patriot Act, and bring all of our troops home within 16 months of his inauguration.
I told people on MNSC that would not happen, many laughed. I was right, he extended the Patriot act, and our troops are still overseas. You can view this as usual broken promises, but I see it as both parties being in accord. That they have a right to control and fuck with us however they want, all the while paying lip service to the people. Look at the continual constant pattern in politics. Government always expands, never contracts. The nation continually goes further into debt. The people of the USAs rights and freedoms are continually eroded, once taken away, we never regain them. It's because most politicians are power and money hungry. People will accept any gradual change, any significant change will be fought(Hitler anyone?).
Power corrupts. And to end my rant, heres a great example of the great old American dream(because you have to be asleep to beieve it - George Carlin) Welcome to doublethink. If you don't know the definition, look it up.
"The areas of life that remain outside the government’s control, taxation, regulation, surveillance, and other intrusion/control have become so few and so trivial that they scarcely merit mention. We verge closer upon the condition in which everything that is not prohibited is required. Yet, the average American will declare loudly that he is a free man and that his country is the freest in the world." ~ Robert Higgs
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