User blog comment:NovaSims/What WW2 have been like if Hitler adnt attacked Russia and Japan hadnt attacked America?/@comment-2159942-20120911202412/@comment-9906822-20120911205328

This is no joking matter, guys. If Roosevelt was that desperate for a casus belli, just having the IJN sink a few civilian merchants would suffice. Sending two and a halve thousand men and the bulk of the Pacific Fleet to the bottom of the harbor is overkill.