[Retain Mike]

We went to war against Japan because they attacked us. We went to war against Germany because Hitler declared war against us and we accepted his declaration.

During the war Roosevelt got on the wrong side of Churchill, among other incidents, by allowing his folks in India to become involved in local politics in a very un-imperial manner. In reading books about Roosevelt and his advisers, I detect antipathy not sympathy for the Empire.

[jmacusa]

Churchill could wait to get America into the war.