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The answer's yes - the US could've not cornered the Japanese into making such a desparate ploy. But all Roosevelt's attempted casus bellis with Germany floundered.
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Actually, Roosevelt did want Pearl Harbor attacked - it his only in to the war in Europe.
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The video driver issue's a touch more nuanced - the AMD/ATI proprietary driver(fglrx) is targeted primarily at the workstation demographic and so isn't rigorously tested for desktop use(though this is changing). nVidia's are supposed to be better, but they've been known to reliably take out the system in some cases. The FOSS drivers
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The idea of an equal quality of life for everybody simply isn't doable - what one person considers the good life may be hell on earth for another(for example, there's really no way to create an "equal" lifestyle between an office worker and a pioneer). The closest possible goal would be to allow everybody to lead the life they wish
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A number of meth's harmful effects contributed to the case that it might make a good weight loss drug. I think the bigger issue is that, IIRC, said approval was never rescinded.
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Speculating about this ahead of time allows people to operate with some degree of certainty without having to wait for a court case to decide things.
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You're deliberately ignoring the Sudetenland issue, which was pure aggression on part of the German state. Had the French and British governments had a backbone, the paper tiger Wehrmacht would've probably fallen in the year, without the moral quandary of whether taking back the Rhineland was moral or not.
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Rettoper, you can't arbitrarily redefine something and accuse those who point this out of avoiding you - terms must be vigorously defended, lest people pull the very intellectual conceit you are. Capitalism, by definition is the nonagressive exchange of goods; what you're calling capitalism is properly known as the war of all against all.
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Rettoper, for one who loves to cry "strawman", you sure love to make them. Capitalism is based on nonaggression, not profit. As for the supposed superiority of centralized commands, recall that in nearly every case a guerrilla warended in favor of the guerrillas.
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At most, the necessity of dropping the bombs was only to achieve unconditional surrender; had the US taken something approaching a reasonable position, those lives could've been spared.