[PEN-L:1658] Re: Very Strange Argument

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>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