LOL! I cringe and I want to round house kick my TV screen when I hear that crap. Hell... sending the Japanese navy from Japan, to Hawaii, undetected was in the extreme... but sending an army another 3,000 miles though California, through the Rockies, and to the Midwest of the USA was feasible? What the hell was that military officer /advisor smoking? Crap like this in movies, is what dumbs down people.
shareThis is another Yamamoto misquote (he didn't say "waking a sleeping giant..." either.) What Yamamoto said was that for the Japanese to defeat America, it wouldn't be enough to capture the West Coast, they would have to conquer the country all the way to Washington and dictate peace in the White House.
This was "useful propaganda" as it was "interpreted" in the press as Yamamoto saying that he would dictate peace terms in the WH. What he was trying to say (IMO) is that Japan would never be able to complete this feat (they couldn't even beat impoverished, politically divided China) and win the war, something he said several times in different ways.
what did he say then? he knew America,knew it was going to become a super power.
But nobody could invade America then or now because the gun nuts would use their rifles to defeat a professional army right?
"Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices."
As quoted in At Dawn We Slept (1981) by Gordon W. Prange, p. 11; this quote was stated in a letter to Ryoichi Sasakawa prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Minus the last sentence, it was taken out of context and interpreted in America as a boast that Japan would conquer the entire continental United States. The omitted sentence showed Yamamoto's counsel of caution towards a war that would cost Japan dearly.
Yes the "Sleeping Giant" quote is a misquote.
And the "having to dictate term in the white house in order to win the war" is an accurate quote taken out of context by westwrn reporters as a claim they intended to take all of America.
However the OP's remark about "Chicago" was not from Yamato, even in the film.
The OP's complaint has nothing to do with Yamato.
The line was said by an American.
Starting with yours, every comment has focused on Yamato when that was never the subject.
To Adress the OP' outrage over the comment....
Calm down. The remark was clearly an exaggerated and facetious remark, not meant to be taken literally. It was intended to unerscore America's unpreparedness and the lack of readiness of the US Military.
Which was quite true.
It was never intended to mean that the Japanese literally would take everything all the way to Chicago. It was quite clear the Japaneae had no ability to land such a large military force on American shores. But if they did... America had nothing with which to stop them.
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!
Hillary!
Go talk to Donald!
Maybe you can get your old Sec. of State job back!