GUEST, Tojo - I think that your reading of history had been a little one-sided. If you think that internment of Japanese-Americans was bad, try to find out what the Japanese internment camps and prisoner of war camps were like. Investigate the use of 'forced labour' from subjected peoples. Find out how the Japanese soldiers behaved in China and elsewhere.

Everyone knew that there would be war between Japan and the USA. Agressive moves from the Japanese can be traced back to the turn of the century. The only counter available to Roosevelt was to ban the export to Japan of materials useful in war.

But the Americans didn't know when or where the war would start. Most military strategists thought that the initial attack would be against the Philippines, as indeed it was to have been before Yamamoto developed his plan for Pearl Harbor. The reason that the American carriers escaped Pearl Harbor was that two of them were delivering 'planes to reinforce Midway and Wake Islands.