[lbo-talk] Bush invaded Iraq because..[lbo-talk] Bush invaded Iraq because...

[N P Childs]

Sorry, but I debated this point many times in the 1980's, and I am not an 
apologist for U.S. policy, but WWII in the Asian theatre was not 
'triggered' by an oil embargo.

It was triggered by Japan building an empire on the eastern Pacific Rim 
that made war with the U.S. as the competing hegemon inevitable. The attack 
on Pearl Harbor was the trigger for the U.S., the Japanese high command and 
military government knew war with the U.S. was coming sooner or later, oil 
embargo or not.

PC

At 12/04/2004,, you wrote:


>The last time the US went to war with Japan, the war triggered by its
>oil embargo, was it more efficient than the invasion and occupation
>of Iraq?
>--

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