Originally Posted by Herr Oberst

Well many Americans didn't want to fight WWII in the beginning before Pearl Harbor and well others, remember the Nazi rally in Madison Square garden. There was a reason why Italians and Germans were not interned on the East Coast, too many. You mention sanctions, they don't work and more than not lead to war, so why bother. The defeat at Pearl Harbor prevented any challenge to the Superior Japanese Navy in the Phillipines. A defeat would leave both the Aleutians and the West Coast vulnerable. An Army did not matter unless it had both Naval and Air support in the Phillipines.