WAR ON IRAQ AND THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR

WAR ON IRAQ AND THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR Comparing Pearl Harbor and The Invasion of Iraq In July of 1941 , Japanese assets were frozen in America , and "the consequent cessation of shipment of oil , scrap iron , and other goods from the United States , Japan 's economy was in most severe straits and her power to wage war directly threatened " and her ability to make war was becoming severely threatened by the ongoing embargoes against her Japanese military planners estimated that "reserves of oil , painfully accumulated in the late 1930s when the

risk of just such a squeeze became evident , would last at most two years " by which time it would be far too late to make a stand , militarily , against the United States in China or elsewhere . Somehow , Japan had found its way to a "no good choices " scenario , with acquiescence to American demands dooming Japan to a less than coequal status with the world 's dominant powers , or war with the United States -- sooner than later -- before supplies dwindled below practical abilities to make war (Russett , 1997 ,

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Diplomatic efforts proved useless when "The United States , and the British and Dutch " would end the embargoes only as a response to "Japanese withdrawal from air and naval bases in Indochina and at this time the Japanese military began to consider war with the U .S inevitable . Most of the Japanese elite "were opposed to any settlement which would in effect have meant withdrawal from China...