--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you think about FDR's lies? Were they immoral, or was secretly > protecting British ships justified...given the likelihood that we would > eventually have had to face the winner of the German/Soviet war? Did he > well represent (or did he actually realize) that he was forcing Japan > into > a corner by prohibiting the sale of oil to Japan. Japan needed oil to > keep > its industrial base going, it needed to either conquer Indochina or get > the US to start shipping again. What were the US's demands for > restarting > the oil shipment, or was oil included in the boycott unintentionally or > without fully thinking through the consequences.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201299/ > Is it that > LBJ and GWB et. al. also lied to themselves? Is it that history has judges that the maneuvering of FDR was moral, given the outcome? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
