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7 December 2015

Franklin Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor, and Big Sky Words

One of the most despicable canards of the Franklin Roosevelt hating right wing is that he had hard evidence of the timing of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but, because he wanted war with Japan, did nothing and thus knowingly allowed the attack to occur. I’ve never found any evidence to support this, nor has any of the historians that I find credible.

Today at Big Sky Words, Missoula based blogger Greg Strandberg revived the “Roosevelt Knew” argument. Strandberg writes well and often is right, but on this matter I disagree with him. I leave it to my readers to study Strandberg’s post and history and to draw their own conclusions.