"...Consider Japan's situation in the summer of 1941.
Bogged down in a four year war in China
she could neither win nor end,
having moved into French Indochina,
Japan saw herself as near the end of her tether.
...On July 25, [1941] we froze all Japanese assets in the United States,
ending all exports and imports,
and denying Japan the oil upon which the nation and empire depended.
...At a Nov. 25 meeting of FDR's war council,
Secretary of War Henry Stimson's notes
speak of the prevailing consensus:
"The question was how we should maneuver them (the Japanese) into
... firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves."
Patrick J. Buchanan
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