A Tribute to Pearl Harbor

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And not only did they bring about their own defeat, they brought doom to NAZI Germany as well. Roosevelt wanted to support Britain in a war against Germany, but could quite get the Congress to go for it. One wonders if the Japanese had delayed their attack, would Roosevelt have been able to get Congress to go to war with Germany. I don't know, but it doesn't seem to have been an option for the Japanese. Once the US put an embargo on shipments of gas to the Japanese, that really lit a fuse that would end either in the Japanese buckling or them going to war. Not too long after the embargo went into effect, the Japanese would start to run out of aviation and naval fuel. If that happened, they wouldn't be able to do much militarily - the point that that Roosevelt wanted. He did, I think, underestimate what the Japanese were capable of, if only temporarily.