In a message dated 4/30/00 1:32:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> 1. At least 6 months prior to Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt halted U.S.
> oil exports to Japan. (Japan has no domestic oil. Denial of a
> vital strategic resource is an act of war. We went to war against
> Iraq on just the possibility that arab oil would be cut off...it never
> was.)
>
> 2. Several months prior to Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt closed the Panama Canal
> to Japanese shipping. This vital waterway was supposed to be
guaranteed
> open for the use of all nations.
>
Hello again...
my earlier answers were prepared in too much haste.
1) you say thatthe US attacked Iraq to protect Arab oil...but Iraq had
invaded Kuwait in a border dispute (similar to China's claim on Taiwan these
days). Kuwait was once part of Iraq.
Had not Iraq invaded Kuwait cutting off its oil, and had not the Arab oil
fields been next in line, I don't think the military response would have been
as great.
There is of course the possibility that we went into war to use up military
supplies to keep the military-industrial complex going, or to test new
technologies, but we may never know.
2. In times of war, strategically important thoroughfares are protected. I
know that there was great fear a ship might be blown up in the canal and
block it for military use. Were ONLY the Japanese blocked from using it? And
even if it was them, was there are fear that they would send supplies to
Germany?
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