>>>>Please don't misunderstand that as a defense of the attack on Pearl Harbor, because there is none. We had done nothing to provoke it.
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>>Really? ;-) You're saying the Japanese spontaneously attacked which nobody expected? ;-)
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>I know there are theories that the U.S. knew it was coming but the general reaction was it was a surprise attack, a sneak attack.

I think Johns point is more about how USA foreign policy for some years before that could be regarded as backing Japan into a corner