> >I reply (WS): I am not a historian, but was not the Japanese attack on >Pearl Harbour a response to the US militarism in the region, specifically >the threat of cutting off the Japanese oil supply lines? A decision to >destroy the US navy was was a logical defensive movement on the part of >Japan's military. Ummm... The U.S. embargoes exports of oil to Japan (because Japan continues its campaign to conquer China, and prepares to send its armies north into Siberia). A Japanese attack on the U.S. is a "logical defensive movement" in response? A very, very strange argument... Brad DeLong
