No, FDR would have more to gain from an ambush. Not to mention that those battleships were sorely missed during the Guadalcanal campaign.
As I said in a previous post, what FDR really needed in December 1941 was time, which he did not have.
Neither the US Army or US Navy were ready for war in late 1941. We had the men, but not the equipment. It was coming, but not fast enough.
He didn’t have the time because he squandered it. General Chesty Puller warned of an attack on Hawaii and the woeful state of readiness - in 1934! General George Patton, Puller’s first cousin, also warned that Pearl Harbor was vulnerable to attack.
FDR moved the Pacific Fleet to Hawaii over the objections of his admirals, concentrating the ships at poorly-defended Pearl Harbor. Like his fellow socialist, Wilson, FDR had run on non-involvement in Europe’s war. Like Wilson, we were in a war within a year.
All this because, despite nine years of then-unprecedented spending and government meddling in the private sector, there were still more people without jobs than in 1932!