I don’t think Iroh meant disgrace as in failure, more disgrace as in shameful, he regretted his military endeavours. Pearl Harbour, being a surprise attack on a neutral party, could arguably also be regarded as a shameful disgrace.
And I don’t think the surprise attack is necessarily a shameful disgrace, the disgraceful part is that it completely backfired. Japan wanted to knock the US out of the war, but instead the attack motivated the US to go on the offensive. Talk about completely missing the mark…
If they just chilled for a bit, maybe the US wouldn’t have noticed.
I don’t think Iroh meant disgrace as in failure, more disgrace as in shameful, he regretted his military endeavours. Pearl Harbour, being a surprise attack on a neutral party, could arguably also be regarded as a shameful disgrace.
Leave your extra letters out of this.
And I don’t think the surprise attack is necessarily a shameful disgrace, the disgraceful part is that it completely backfired. Japan wanted to knock the US out of the war, but instead the attack motivated the US to go on the offensive. Talk about completely missing the mark…
If they just chilled for a bit, maybe the US wouldn’t have noticed.