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Originally Posted by Wave Skipper
Last - August - go back and learn about 1941. FDR had run on a promise not to get the US into war. He had to have an incident to turn the over 90% of Americans who were against a war into favoring the war.
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Maybe you ought to go back and learn about 1941 yourself.
First off Pearl Harbor was not the only target of the Japanese during the opening days of the war. There is no way that attacking our forces stationed in the Phillipines and on Guam and Wake islands would not have been enough to get the American people on board for a war against the Axis, so there was absolutely no need for FDR to sacrifice the fleet at Pearl Harbor.
Secondly, FDR was not some first term president. This was his THIRD term. The president who had led the country out of the woods of the Great Depression.
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Why would you guys pretend that governments don't work behind the scenes? I know why. You are the sort that what mom and apple pie sotries about your nation. You do know I hope that FDR enacted perhaps more presidential orders that were later knocked down by the Supreme Court than any other president? I doubt you do.
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What makes you think i pretend that? Because I don't think FDR was stupid? FDR was indeed planning for war. Planning against possible eventualities is something I would expect a good chief executive to do. But does all that translate into foreknowledge of the time and means of the Japanese attack as Stinnet claims? No it doesn't.