[ASOC]

FDR most certainly knew of the coming attack - witness the telegraph sent to PH just before the attack.

Many different things could have been done, but history is, well, History.

And if anyone should have been CM it was that idiot MacArthur.

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And if anyone should have been CM it was that idiot MacArthur.

Speaking of MacArthur, I have always thought that assuming FDR "knew" a Japanese attack was imminent (a proposition I don't really buy), he thought the attack would be in the Far East, not Hawaii. MacArthur, the Philippines and the Asiatic Fleet were all to be the sacrificial lambs.