[Polybius]

Churchill didn't hope for Pearl Harbor... but he thanked God America was finally in the game.

You have a much less cynical view of human nature than I do. :-)

See Post 40.

I believe than Churchill probably did hope that something, whatever it needed to be, brought the U.S. into the war on the British side. Britain's very survival depended on it.

[johnny7]

You have a much less cynical view of human nature than I do. :-)

It makes for a better story. ;)