>>17860261
>but you never hear the Americans being referred to as being outplayed or outsmarted by the Japanese for not seeing Peal Harbor coming?
Basically what >>17860281 and >>17860318 said.
The only potential excuse for FDR is that he was expecting the Japs to attack only the Philippines and leave Hawaii alone.
There's no doubt that he was expecting the cornered country to bite her way into (temporary) freedom