And then cleverly managed to make Germany declare war on us. Germany immediately became the priority after they declared war on the United States, why arrange things so that Japan attacks if your real goal is to fight Germany? Yes, Japan and Germany were allies, but Japan certainly didn't attack the Soviet Union when Germany did, so how could FDR have known Hitler would declare war on the U.S.?
I've never understood why, if FDR "arranged" things, it was necessary for us to have our pants around our ankles at Pearl Harbor. The political purposes could have been served just as well if the alerted American forces destroyed the attackers. The Japanese would still have been proven to have started things.
1. Germany was treaty bound to Japan Also they were winning
2. Anti war sentiment in the US ran high against getting into another European war
3. Roosevelt and our military misjudged how capable the Japanese really were It wasn’t until the Battle of the Coral Sea that we began to even things up
4. It is a fact that Kimmel had the fleet out and in the exact place he needed to be to intercept about two weeks ahead of the attack. He was ordered back into Pearl by Adm Stark (CNO)