home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!know!cass.ma02.bull.com!think.com!spool.mu.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!convex!convex!visser
- From: visser@convex.com (Lance Visser)
- Newsgroups: soc.history
- Subject: Pearl Harbor
- Message-ID: <visser.721857914@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:05:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.164537.7160@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov15.133710.15@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
- Lines: 23
- Nntp-Posting-Host: dhostwo.convex.com
- X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
- Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
- not necessarily those of CONVEX.
-
- In <1992Nov15.133710.15@uoft02.utoledo.edu> jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner) writes:
-
- +>> Yes, but England wouldn't have withstood as long as it did if the
- +>> US hadn't taken sides long before Pearl Harbor. Japan wouldn't
- +>> have even bombed Pearl Harbor if it wasn't for the United States
- +>> refusing to sell oil to it -- but that's "meddling" in the
- +>> Libertarian view of the world.
-
- A question about Japanese behavior that has always bothered
- me is why after the embargo went on Japan didn't just walk into
- Indonesia in retaliation and dare the americans (or the british) to do
- anything about it. Its true that the supply lines from Japan to Indonesia
- would have been endangered by american and british forces in the region
- potentially, but its hard to see anyone declaring war on Japan because
- of it.
- It would have been difficult to "sell" a war over a Dutch colonial
- possession in the united states.
- Once in Indonesia, Japan would have had all the oil it would have
- ever needed.
-
- The biggest irony of the war in regard to oil is probably that
- the Italians and Germans, while being desperatly short of it, were in
- control of huge (but then undiscovered) quantities of it in Libya.
-