an will use national suicide as a weapon ("Japanese Etch" 43-44; Moley 92).
The United States under the leadership of President Franklin Roosevelt intentionally and with forethought abandoned the nation's traditional position of neutrality. The primary motives for this action involved goals of economic and political domination to a greater extent than goals of stopping totalitarianism and aggression were involved. Economic interests, thus, were a major causal factor of the war between the United States and Japan. The United States vehemently opposed Japanese economic expansion in the Pacific region because the United States itself coveted economic hegemony in that area of the international economy. Thus, whatever the Japanese nation attempted to do to promote its own economic interests in the Pacific, regardless of how lawful and peaceful those efforts m
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