“Historian James Bradley had a fascinating op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times tracing the origins of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor back to the foreign policy of President Theodore Roosevelt, who famously intervened in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and earned himself a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Yet as Bradley notes, Roosevelt was secretly acting on Japan’s behalf, or as he wrote to his son, ‘not merely with her approval but with her expressed desire.’ Following that, Roosevelt actively encouraged Japan to emulate America’s recent imperial expansion, though the results would prove disastrous in the long-term.”

http://reason.com/blog/2009/12/07/teddy-roosevelt-and-the-road-t

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