The vast majority, 70%+ of Americans in the late 1930's, wanted to stay out of the war. It is nearly unanimously accepted by Historians that the US could easily have stayed out of the war if it had maintained policy of neutrality. Instead, FDR deliberately, and secretly defied the will of the people and engaged in policies explicitly designed, by his own admission, to provoke an Axis attack on the US: the oil embargo on Japan, US military aid to China, US destroyers firing unprovoked on German U-boats, etc. It is to these to policies of FDR, which I repeat, the vast majority of Americans opposed, that Pat objects.
There is zero evidence either Germany or Japan had any designs upon attacking the US. This notion that they would have come after us eventually is pure FDR propaganda.
Germany could not even mount a successful invasion of Britain, while Britian was all alone, with no allies (France had already fallen and Russia was still a German ally at the time). How in the world were they going to attack the US, especially after having fought an exhaustive war against Russia?
Also recall that the Soviets were just as evil, in fact more evil, than the Nazis. By helping the Soviets defeat the Nazis, we were simply trading one evil for another.
Japan knew that it stood a tiny chance of winning a war with the US. Internal documents prove it. That's why it went to extreme lengths to try to avoid it. Just weeks before Pearl harbor the Japanese even offered to withdraw from Dutch East Indies (I have to check this, it could be someplace else), if the US would just lift the oil embargo. FDR refused. Japan could not survive without oil. Ergo it had no choice but to risk a war. The point is that Japan did not want a fight with the US, and had no reason for such a fight (other than the oil embargo), and there is absolutely no reason to believe they would ever risk such a fight (except the oil embargo). There was nothing in it for them.
They attacked us because they hoped that we might not have the stomach for a long, drawn out war and would sue for peace, ceeding to them some territory with oil on it. They knew it was a long shot, but it was their only hope of preserving their empire.