name AOL USER wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/30/00 1:32:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > Japan was provoked and prodded into the attack on Pearl Harbor.
> > A few historical notes.
> > 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.
> >
> > 3. The final straw was when Roosevelt delivered an ultimatum demanding
> > that the Japanese get their military forces out of Manchuria.
> >
> > Roosevelt had campaigned for his third term as the "peace candidate".
> > He said: "I am not about to send your sons to fight and die
> > in another european war."
> >
> > Public opinion was very strongly against the U.S. entering the war.
> >
> > Roosevelt's problem was how to turn this around?
> > How could he not only change the peoples minds, but actually
> > get large numbers of Americans to actually DEMAND WAR?
> >
> > PEARL HARBOR! THE DAY OF INFAMY!
> >
> > The U.S. had broken the Japanese Imperial Code around a
> > year before Pearl Harbor.
> > Roosevelt and his inner circle not only knew the Japanese fleet
> > was coming.....THEY PLANNED IT THAT WAY!
> >
> > Regards to All
> > Nakano
> >
>
> I do believe that Roosevelt wanted us to get involved in Europe (to help
> England), but I'm not sure he would have wanted a Pacific War since we were
> strained in Europe.
> But wouldn't a declaration of war rather than an overtly aggressive act (the
> raid) have gotten the attention of Roosevelt? BTW, it was brilliant
> strategic move on the part of the Japanese. We were caught with our pants
> down. If we had the same thing to Tokyo, our side would be perceived as
> heroes ( I say this with some hesitation as many brave men died, but that is
> the nature of war).
>
> I don't disagree about your listing of provocative events, but question
> whether they were done to get the result you suggest. As one example, let me
> propose we cut off oil to Japan because it was needed on other battlefronts.
> But the US was by far not the only source of oil...as I recall we were but a
> small exporter compared to other countries.
>
> I don't know about the reasoning behind the Panama Canal closing, and would
> suggest you might have a point. Nevertheless Germany closed the Suez Canal to
> all....suggesting to me that these closings of shortcuts might have slowed
> the war down a bit to permit a bit of perspective taking.
>
> I have no knowledge of the Manchuria demands. But what was Japan doing in
> Manchuria. Was this an act of war on Japan's part?
>
> Please do not take my questions as necessarily a disagreement with your
> thesis; I just don't know enough about all this to respond properly, in
> depth. But two of your three "reasons" seem a little thin to me.
>
Then buy the book * Day of Deception * just released a few months ago.
Joshua2
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