SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: GST who wrote (126187)3/14/2004 11:58:40 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
<And as for Japan, they always claimed that they only attacked in "self-defense" just as your dear friend G. Bush claims. Japan needed the resources and interpreted any threat to foreign sources of commodities to be a threat to Japan>

The analogy is even closer than that. The crucial resource which Japan needed, and which a U.S.-organized embargo was denying them, was........oil. Japan felt they needed to occupy the oil fields in Indonesia, to defend their vital national interests. Just an U.S. energy policy amounts to: garrison the Middle East oil fields. And, like Japan, the war leaders of America did an effective PR campaign, which convinces their own country (but no one else) that it was a necessary and defensive war. Too bad there won't be a war crimes trial at the end of Bush's career.
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News