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To: ketsu

“Here’s a little secret. Roosevelt forced the Japanese to attack. By denying the Japanese their oil imports the Japanese(with no native oil reserves and got their oil from America) he had basically given the Japanese economy a death sentence unless they found another source of oil. Roosevelt *knew* the Japanese would have to attack the US in order to secure the indonesian oil fields.”

Not a secret and also not true.

The Japanese had invaded China, Korea, and most of the rest of the Pac Rim and were on their way to conquering the rest - they did it for the raw materials.

The Japanese needed the oil for their war machine, which was to say they didn’t need it at all.

Roosevelt knew the Japanese would attack US territories eventually no matter what he did.


27 posted on 07/01/2007 3:50:57 AM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
Lest we forget there were some treaties of which Japan was a party. For example, the way she gained territorial rights (viz., Pacific islands formerly recognized as being German - the so-called Mandates), Northern China, ...):

Some instances: Treaty of Portsmouth, Root-Takahire Agreement, Treaty of Versailles, Olney Corollary (of the Monroe Doctrine) comparative to Stimson Doctrine, ... etc.

Your source of FDR "knowing" Japan would attack US terriories eventually is where?

FDR instructing Hull to replace the modus vevendi with the ten-point ultimatum ... bad move.

40 posted on 07/01/2007 1:29:51 PM PDT by jamaksin
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