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aworkstoday at 12:57 AM1 replyview on HN

Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival, starting with the shock of Pearl Harbor. Isolationishm turned to intervention in the "Good War." I won't defend any war after that...


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pfannkuchentoday at 2:15 AM

> Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival

Right, they did. But in retrospect, was it actually?

If the US had stayed neutral from the beginning, do we think Japan would have bombed America's military base?

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