Maybe he was pissed because he anticipated that the war would interfere with the family rackets. If he were at all farsighted, he would have foreseen that the war would create tremendous new opportunities for racketeering.
I think Sonny thought Pearl Harbor was a dame prior to the Dec 7 bombing.
Hagen DID know it was coming, and he said so.
Tom said that we should have expected it.
But, I wondered why Vito sought a deferment for Michael from the draft. Inductions had only started about a year before, and they were quite limited. If I remember correctly, as a college student he would have had a deferment without Vito's intervention.
