Ah. Well, that's good to hear that they got that across. FDR knew he was pushing the Japanese into a war, but his real long range gameplan was to get into the European war and defeat the Nazis (whom he regarded...correctly...as FAR more dangerous than the Japanese). Fighting Japan was an indirect means toward that objective, but the Japanese had to attack America first, because the American congress would not have voted for war otherwise. Geopolitics is a ruthless business.

- LH