Coming from a Japanese heritage poster, I can understand his smirking glee. Ending the depression with massive government spending anathema to Republicans for any social needs.  Republican fascists who had been doing business and extolling the virtues of Hitler and Mussolini fascism especially the war on Jews suddenly became great patriots as they fed at the Military Industrial trough.  Waving flags and spouting patriotic platitudes while filling their bellies and bank accounts with taxpayer profits.  The dead, disabled, and their families didn't think of Pearl Harbor as a "good" event.  All of the things war enabled could have been accomplished without it.  After WWII, the Republican fascists along with their embedded facist institutions, i.e., religion, Wall Street, Corporate, began the overthrow of the Constitutional Republic through fear and intimidation with fascist tactics, once again using false patriotism, hate and fear to succeed.  Only took 75 years for it all to be realized.