The 9/11 Terror and The Pearl Harbor Attack
In the morning of September 11, 2001, there was only one foreign guest in the White House.
It was one of elite businessmen from Japan. So, he was safely escorted out of an office of the White House to the gate by a high-ranking officer of the White House while they were evacuating the White House. But the Japanese was impressed at words the officer said in a hurry in a tense atmosphere: "This is like Pearl Harbor!"
The Pearl Harbor means a sneaky attack for Americans. But the truth is very different. As a matter of fact, the US had been imposing severe economic sanctions on the Empire of Japan for a few years prior to the Pearl Harbor Attack by the Imperial Navy in early December.
July 1939 - The US notifies to Japan abolition of the US-Japan Treaty on Commerce and Navigation.
June 1940 - The US introduces an approval system to export of special machine tools to Japan.
July 1940 - The US introduces a law to strengthen President's right to select export items and another law to control export of iron and machining tools to Japan.
August 1940 - The US introduces an approval system to export of petroleum products, including aircraft fuel. Further export of aircraft fuel to Asia is totally inhibited.
June 1941 - The US adopts an approval system for export of crude oil.
July 1941 - The US freezes all the Japanese assets in America.
August 1941 - The US imposes a total embargo of crude oil and oil products to Japan.
Before WWII, the Empire of Japan heavily relied on the US for provision of crude oil. Oil from the US accounted for 90% of all the amount the Empire consumed. Without crude oil imported from America, war ships and military planes of the Imperial military could not be operated.
At the time when the US stopped export of oil to the Empire in August 1941, Japanese military leaders estimated that in a year or so the Imperial Navy became unable to operate its military ships and airplanes due to a lack of fuel though Japan had some stockpiles of oil. In this situation, the Imperial Navy would surely lose a war against the US Navy without real exchanges of fire in the Pacific Ocean.
The reason why the US came to take a tough stance against the Empire of Japan was partly that the Empire had established and controlled Manchukuo in 1932 against strong opposition from China and the US; the Empire started a full-scale war with China since 1937; and the Empire established the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Italy in 1940. As Nazi Germany had been bombing England so fiercely from the sky at the time, the US wanted to join the war against Hitler to help Britain. In addition, many Chinese elites were engaged in political activities to get more military aid from the US, though China had already received huge material support, including squadrons of fighter planes, from America.
Moreover, a spy sent by Moscow to Tokyo had already got information that the Empire would sooner or later invade Indonesia, then colonized by the Netherlands, for crude oil. To occupy Indonesia, the Imperial Navy and Army had to defeat US troops in the Philippines and the British naval force around Singapore. In order to carry out this strategy swiftly and easily, the Imperial Navy had to first deal with US Naval fleets disposed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This spy, named Richard Sorge, sent a secret report to Moscow by radio, stressing a possibility that the Empire of Japan would soon start a war in the Pacific. This information was relayed to Washington, since the US and the USSR were then in virtual cooperation against the axis powers.
Taking into account all these conditions before the Pearl Harbor Attack, it is natural to consider that the US Government and President Roosevelt expected that the Imperial fleets of Japan would soon attack US bases in the Philippines or as far as Pearl Harbor.
So, by analogy with the Pearl Harbor Attack of 1941, we may well have to think that some elite politicians or bureaucrats of the US Government must have expected some attacks on the American soil by Al Qaeda. However, as they failed to correctly estimate ability and power of the Imperial military of Japan in December 1941, they failed to correctly estimate ability and cruelty of Islamic terrorists in September 2001, too.
In this context, the 9/11 Terror might bear some analogy to Pearl Harbor, so profoundly.
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Act 9:11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
Act 9:12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
Act 9:13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
Act 9:14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Act 9:15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: