"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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It's also worth examining the circumstances under which we entered both
World
Wars under Democrat administrations. There is credible evidence that the
Lusitania was running guns to Britain, with the knowledge and complicity
of
the Wilson administration, and the Germans sank it because they found out
(ar
at least suspected). There is also credible evidence that the Roosevelt
administration deliberately ignored warnings of an impending Japanese
attack,
in the knowledge that it would give an excuse for entering a war that the
American populace strongly favored staying _out_ of.


FDR did express the desirability of having Japan make the first hostile act,
even if he didn't deliberately provoke it. Say what you will, he knew that
people like GregP would be second-guessing and opposing the effort unless it
was punctuated by many American deaths. He knew he could count on the
support of the isolationist Republicans once war was declared, it was the
liberals' (Communists) support he doubted. They'd just gone through their
volte face with the attack on the Soviet Union, and if Stalin made nice with
his fellow dictator again, their support was gone.