I like the Wiki article on Zimmermans work:
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"These theories tend to founder on the logic of the situation. Had Roosevelt and other members of his administration known of the attack in advance, they would have been foolish to sacrifice one of the major instruments needed to win the war just to get the United States into it."
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Makes sense. If the object was indeed to get Germany to declare against us that would have been very well served by ambushing and destroying the Japanese fleet before it could attack.