I'm surprised that any historian would believe such a thing, unless it was a historian(sic) acting as a Nazi apologist. It was the Nazis who burned the Reichstag, but it was the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor. What Roosevelt and Bush have in common, as a matter now of public knowledge, is that both, faced with clear indications of a likely attack, took no action that might prevent that attack--nonfeasance in office. But, to Roosevelt's "credit," his [in]action had an arguably justified political purpose--forcing US entry into the war at the moment when Hitler's army stood within sight of the Kremlin--and he also made sure that the only essential part of the Pacific Fleet, the aircraft carrriers, were at sea instead of at their moorings. Bush's nonfeasance comported no damage limitations, his motivations had no color of public interest, and, unlike the Republicans in wartime, the Democrats in peacetime adopted a version of union sacrée that ruled out any public congessional investigation.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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