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Sounds like more of reading history through 21st century eyes and judging by todays "norms".

The fleet was moved to Pearl from San Diego in response to the perceived Japanese threat - Wake and Midway defenses were being augmented due to said threat. Oil and Steel exports were curtailed in response to said threat - in a step that contributed to the cause of the Japanese attack. The US was coming out of a rather isolation oriented period but already re arming and supplying England.
Was or is the US without sin in the many aspect of WW2 --of course not --but to fully understand or attempt to understand history - it must be viewed through the looking glass of the era as well.