There is an excellent book titled The New Dealers' War: The war within WWII by Thomas Freeman. He makes a compelling case that FDR got into the war and fought it in a way to save Joe Stalin's butt. Hitler had attacked him from the west and Japan was posing a threat on the eastern front. Freeman says that FDR had outfitted an old sailing ship with a cannon, put in under an American flag, put a young Navy Lt in charge, making it a U.S. warship, and sailed it into Japanese waters trying to instigate an incident with Japan to give us the excuse to enter the war. Japan saved him the trouble and attacked Pearl Harbor but never spotted the sailing ship.
As we have learned since, there were lots of Communists and Communist sympathizers in FDR's administration. Additional pressure was exerted by his wife.
And if you think that the Japanese were right to attack us, you had better hope we never meet. I may ask for your property or goods at whatever price I want, and when you refuse shoot you and take it. And unless you are a hypocrite, you would have no grounds to complain.
“I had forgotten about FDR cutting off the oil to Japan. I guess that does make this a similar situation.”
You have earned your nickname. This is NOT a “similar situation” as we are not actively using that oil to plunder and wage war against nations like Japan was doing to China when the western nations denied Japan military vital raw materials to continue waging war.
You need to study history.
John Rabe, the top-ranking Nazi liaison to the Imperial Japanese government, was so appalled by what he saw that he personally wrote a letter to Adolf F*CKING for intervention on HUMANITARIAN grounds.
Learn some more history before you completely discredit yourself.