Interesting discussion...
On Pearl Harbor: it was Roosevelt and his handler's policy to drag the USA into World War Two one way or another. Throughout 1941 they regularly engaged German Submarines in open combat doing convoy duty shipping war material to Great Britain. A World War was needed to set the stage for the planned postwar United Nations/Cold War whereby the remnants of European power would be worn out/destroyed and subsumed into two planned power blocks-the US/Soviet standoff.
It was Wall Street that brought the Soviets to power and financed them. It was Wall Street that ultimately backed Hitler and brought him and the Nazis to power. It was Wall Street that first sold to 19th century samurai sword swinging Japan modern military hardware... instead of just invading and subjugating them like they did about every other people not white.
It was Wall Street that created our enemies, has been creating our enemies. They operate through think tanks like the Council On Foreign Relations and Rand. Whose to say that CIA asset Osama Bin Ladin hadn't helped set up Al Qaeda as ultimately a tool of Wall Street?
But back to the discussion at hand...
Those battleships were set out as sitting ducks on purpose-they were all World War One vintage and could NOT keep up with the new carriers. The investment in the aircraft carrier was well reasoned. Yes there were new battleships coming into service, and you'll note none of them were sitting pretty on Battleship Row. All those ships were struggling to hit 23 knots while the new carriers and battleships were 30+ knot capable.
As for Japan: they were backed by Wall Street into becoming the threat they became. A modern military with a unreformed, brutal, feudalistic mindset and that infamous Japanese racism? More than a few would state that the Japs had some karma coming-though it would have been much, much better if they had been nipped in the bud-pun NOT intended. Course they'd been like Vietnam, a colony or something...
Anyway, we crushed the Japs and the Germans, and the same inbred bastards who backed them just to crush them have been deliberately, slowly, destroying our country for the past 60 years. What's happening is America is being set up for the final take down-because you can't have a global slave state with a functional USA that remembers the heritage of Freedom and their ancestors sacrifices.
Figuring that out, figuring out that Al Qaeda is at the top ranks a pack of CIA assets... Wall Street assets... it makes sense to launch a false flag attack on a pair of expendable landmarks laden with masonic and numerological symbology in order to push softened, dumbed down Americans into a war of civilizations against Islam-who have their own Wall Street ringers running their own radical groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. You do note that the rapists of the TSA don't even touch Muslims due to religious concerns but will sex up your 6 year old kid.
Breaking up America into separate states would help fill the owners of Wall Street's goal of world domination. Having an enraged America go out in a Middle East wide crusade, emptying out the prisons and issuing rifles to what would essentially be Janissaries being used as cannon fodder fills their agenda of a clash of civilizations-just as coddling Moslem enclaves in America for a operational base for Al Qaeda and to give all the unthinking gun toting 'murikans something to hate.
That's their game-question is, do we go along with their game or does someone figure out their bullshit and make them play by theirs?