Because America didn’t have the stomach to send our boys to die overseas in another Great War. The memories of the first debacle were still somewhat fresh.
Then FDR allowed/encouraged Pearl Harbor to happen, and things changed on a dime: “WE WUZZ UHTACKKT!!!!!1!”
Once FDR gave his “Arsenal of Democracy” speech, for all intents and purposes, we were at war.
FDR was reluctant to join the war for obvious reasons. But when the great socialist utopia (USSR) was attacked by Hitler, FDR reversed course and some speculate opened Pearl Harbor to the Japanese attack, less than six months later. WW2 was then in full fury!
PermaRag wrote: “Then FDR allowed/encouraged Pearl Harbor to happen, and things changed on a dime: “WE WUZZ UHTACKKT!!!!!1!””
Standing up to evil dictators that threaten the free world is not ‘allowing/encouraging’ an attack on Pearl Harbor.
“Then FDR allowed/encouraged Pearl Harbor to happen”
This ridiculous lie again. I have no love for FDR but this is disgusting.