Monday, May 21, 2007

 

This Day in American History

On this day in 1941, seven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt proclaimed "an unlimited state of national emergency." We weren't totally unaware, but we were blind to the particulars. Of course, only an idiot would have expected the Japanese to do nothing in response to our oil embargo of Japan, which was a response to their atrocities in China, by which we hoped to reign them in. That was a silly wanhope.

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# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:37 AM
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Rog,

Just wondering. Is embargo a successful means of modern foreign policy?

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# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6:13 PM
 
Seemed to work October, 1962, although the secret tit for tat re our nukes in Turkey probably helped too.

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# posted by Blogger Roger Fraley : 10:21 PM
 
I thought that was more of a blockade than an embargo.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 9:53 AM
 
It was a blockade but they called it an embargo. Jefferson's embargo of trade with France? Can't remember if that did anything or not?
# posted by Blogger Roger Fraley : 10:50 PM
 
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