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:I think this hypothesis is shown to be false by the way in which the U.S. actually responded to Pearl Harbor.  "That was a dirty rotten trick the Japanese pulled, and we're never going to forgive the Germans for it!" would be a reasonable tag line.  Both Germany and Japan declared war on us, but it was Japan that killed 2,000 of us in what we at least said we regarded as a dispicable and underhanded sneak attack.  So how did we respond?  With a maximum war effort in Europe, and no serious committment to the Pacific.  In fact, as I indicated above, Germany had essentially zero ability to threaten us, and so their declaration of war was immenently ignorable, if we'd been inclined to ignore it.  We weren't, and we didn't.  [[User:QBeam]]

:I think this hypothesis is shown to be false by the way in which the U.S. actually responded to Pearl Harbor.  "That was a dirty rotten trick the Japanese pulled, and we're never going to forgive the Germans for it!" would be a reasonable tag line.  Both Germany and Japan declared war on us, but it was Japan that killed 2,000 of us in what we at least said we regarded as a dispicable and underhanded sneak attack.  So how did we respond?  With a maximum war effort in Europe, and no serious committment to the Pacific.  In fact, as I indicated above, Germany had essentially zero ability to threaten us, and so their declaration of war was immenently ignorable, if we'd been inclined to ignore it.  We weren't, and we didn't.  [[User:QBeam]]