Peal Harbor and the 9/11 Terror
Americans never dream that it is very rude and provoking to compare the 9/11 terror of 2001 to the Pearl Harbor attack of 1941.
There are 10 and more significant reasons to justify my claim, but I will discuss only a few.
1) The Imperial Navy targeted only U.S. military facilities and personnel in the Pearl Harbor attack. (Unfortunately some 60 U.S. civilians happened to be killed while 2000 U.S. soldiers were killed.)
2) The U.S. Government was making full efforts to make the Empire of Japan start a war. Roosevelt even rejected an offer by Japanese Prime Minister Konoe for holding a summit meeting to avoid the war months before the Pearl Harbor attack conducted in early December 1941.
3) The U.S. Government froze Japanese assets in America and stopped export of crude oil to Japan months before Pearl Harbor while the Empire imported 70% of crude oil from the U.S. The Imperial Navy was losing fuel. (And all the trade with the Empire was banned by Roosevelt, leading to an economic crisis in the Empire.)
The U.S. Government requested full withdrawal of Japanese troops from China. But, it simply requested it without any deep negotiations and discussions on the causes and situations of the Japan-China War. The American public was not fully informed of this policy against the Empire. From the beginning this Japan-China War had been started by Chinese troops having been supported by Nazi Germany. It started as the Shanghai-Nanjing Battles in 1937 where Chinese troops equipped with German weapons launched attacks on the then international city Shanghai where many Europeans, Americans, Judaists, and Japanese lived peacefully. Yet, the U.S. Government simply requested full withdrawal of Japanese troops from China.
At the time, the English, Russian communists, and Judaists were all working on the American elite so as to persuade Roosevelt to join the war against Hitler. But, peace-loving American citizens were reluctant to go and fight in Europe. Meanwhile, Chinese elites were trying hard to make the U.S. a fatal enemy of the Empire of Japan to succeed already to some extent months before Pearl Harbor.
The U.S. had no sincere intention to go between the Empire of Japan and China. The Roosevelt Administration just wanted the Empire to start war (for crude oil) and then to declare war against the Empire and Germany, a military ally of the Empire.
(Specifically, the Imperial Navy had to occupy oil fields in Indonesia under colonial rule of the Netherlands which tied up with the U.S. and the U.K. To go and get Indonesia, the Imperial fleet had to first suppress the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, though Roosevelt and other top American leaders thought it would be American bases in the Philippines that the Imperial Navy should first attack.)
So, this is a typical of diplomatic and security conspiracy on the American side unlike the case of the 9/11 Terror.
Yet, there are some common aspects between Pearl Harbor and the 9/11. They will be studied below.
But, first of all, what was the purpose of the 9/11 Terror on Osama bin Laden's side?
For the Empire of Japan in 1941, the Pearl Harbor attack was intended to eliminate American military interference to the Empire's venture into acquisition of crude oil at oil fields in Indonesia.
But, first of all, what was the purpose of the 9/11 Terror on Osama bin Laden's side? To see it, we have to check human networks he was involved in around 2001.
The key to understanding the motivation of Osama bin Laden is that he was rich, very rich, and almost super rich. Those who were connected to Osama bin Laden were super rich Arabs associated with Islamic royal families and even the British royal family and engaged in business with powerful Americans such as the Bush clan. But, Osama bin Laden was not a member of the Saudi Arabia power elite. He was not a minister of the Saudi Arabia Government. He could see a minister of the Saudi Arabia Government to offer his help for the country's war against Saddam Hussein, but he was neglected eventually. Osama bin Laden was a son of a super rich businessman of Saudi Arabia, but not a leading and influential figure. He was the second class member of the Saudi Arabia upper class. He was never invited to join the government to manage national affairs or big business with the U.S. or the U.K. In the capitalism context, he was a second class member of the super rich men's community. But, Osama bin Laden could not accept it. He started to make himself important to other members of the super rich men's community by leveraging anti-American religious feeling among poor Muslims.
What drove him decisively to this direction was the presumed conspiracy that brought death to Princess Diana and her Egyptian boyfriend in Paris in 1997. The super rich and powerful people who rejected Osama bin Laden were doing such a terrible thing to kill Princess Diana and her Egyptian boyfriend. Osama bin Laden lost respect for them completely. He must have wanted to show his contempt to them. And, as this was a kind of feud in the capitalist environment where he had been raised, his target had to be something capitalistic, the World Trade Center in New York.
So, Osama bin Laden, after 1997, came to welcome a plan to destroy WTC.
The idea for the attacks came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who first presented it to Osama bin Laden in 1996. At that time, bin Laden and al-Qaeda were in a period of transition, having just relocated back to Afghanistan from Sudan. The 1998 African Embassy bombings and bin Laden's 1998 fatwā marked a turning point, as bin Laden became intent on attacking the United States. In December 1998, the CIA's Counterterrorist Center reported to President Bill Clinton that al-Qaeda was preparing for attacks in the U.S. that might include hijacking aircraft.
In late 1998 or early 1999, bin Laden gave approval for Mohammed to go forward with organizing the plot. A series of meetings occurred in early 1999, involving Mohammed, bin Laden, and his deputy Mohammed Atef.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks#Planning_of_the_attacks
Now one of common aspects between Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 are that Americans are not so foolish if not super smart.
Some American elites knew beforehand that the Empire of Japan would attack some American military bases, most probably, in the Philippines. And, it is most possible that some American elites knew that Osama bin Laden would attack some American assets, most probably, in the Middle East, South Asia, or Africa. But in both the cases, such Americans miscalculated the place to be attacked. It was actually Pearl Harbor and WTC/Washington DC, respectively.
(to be continued...)
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Appendix. Minoru Yamasaki
The architect of WTC is a Japanese American.
Yamasaki was born in Seattle, Washington, a second-generation Japanese American...
He earned money to pay for his tuition by working at an Alaskan salmon cannery...
After moving to New York City in the 1930s, he enrolled at New York University for a master's degree in architecture and got a job with the architecture firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, designers of the Empire State Building. In 1945, Yamasaki moved to Detroit, where he was hired by Smith, Hinchman, and Grylls.The firm helped Yamasaki avoid internment as a Japanese-American during World War II, and he himself sheltered his parents in New York City. Yamasaki left the firm in 1949, and started his own partnership...
He died of stomach cancer in 1986...
He also designed several "sleek" international airport buildings and was responsible for the innovative design of the 1,360 foot (415 m) towers of the World Trade Center, for which design began in 1965, and construction in 1972.I thought the design of WTC was not so great. It also looked fragile with a single rectangular structure. It should have been two-tire structured. A little wider and bigger rectangular parallelepiped must have been built first, and then upon it a slim rectangular parallelepiped must have been placed. Yet, WTC design looked so new, heralding the coming of a new era, namely the post-Vietnam War Era in early 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Yamasaki
Anyway, the 9/11 Anniversary Ceremonies being held in New York and Washington DC have been well introduced in Japan. Many TV stations have presented live pictures from the ceremonial sites. Yet, as 20,000 people were lost in the 3/11 Disaster in Japan, the audience are busy checking both the 10-year anniversary in the U.S. and the 6-month anniversary in Japan. And, it was very lucky for America that Osama bin Laden was not a mad man who would rather try something nuclear in his war against WTC and Pentagon.