[JohnGalt]

I wish Bovard would bridge the final gap in his politcal logic. Conservatives correctly blamed FDR for his defense policy lapses that allowed for a Pearl Harbor (in some circles to this day it is part of Conservative dogma that FDR desired and knew about Pearl Harbor in adavance) and yet the Conservative voice of dissent has come only from the paleo-Right which neo-Cons don't even consider part of the Right anymore.

[BluesDuke]

(in some circles to this day it is part of Conservative dogma that FDR desired and knew about Pearl Harbor in adavance)

He may or may not have desired explicitly the attack on Pearl Harbour, but it is reasonably on record that Franklin D. Roosevelt did want to see the United States, in one or another way, get involved more directly in what was becoming World War II. The Japanese in fact were provoked to attack the United States by Roosevelt's very questionable blockading of Japanese shipping in the Pacific Ocean. You can get a very striking account of that and, come to think of it, the entire nasty truth about the Roosevelt era in The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn (long considered a leading if sometimes forgotten light of the Old Right).

Which reminds me: Comparing 11 September to Pearl Harbour is something along the line of comparing a watermelon to an apple. Even Imperial Japan thought only to attack an American military installation - and on an archipelago in the Pacific which wasn't even admitted as a state yet! Say what you will about Pearl Harbour, but the Japanese didn't even think about hijacking a few Pan American flying clippers in order to take out some commercial office buildings at the beginning of the working day.