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re: Could almost anyone born after 1940 fight in WWI
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:22 pm to ChewyDante
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:22 pm to ChewyDante
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So you believe the United States got involved in the war because of Hitler's actions against Jews and Japanese war crimes in China? Like I said, such naivete.
I'm saying we knew they were evil. I don't think many people in the US thought that the Germans were evil during WWI, and Woodrow Wilson made that clear in his speech on getting Congress to vote for a declaration of war. It just really helps the war effort when your enemy is indisputably evil.
They sure as shite showed the soldiers in the Pacific what the Japanese did in the Rape of Nanking, and the NYT was there to report on it. It was a very widely reported massacre. I'm sure that footage made sure that no American wanted to be captured alive by them and would fight to the death with the Japanese.
This post was edited on 12/5/17 at 7:26 pm
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Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:30 pm to OMLandshark
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I'm saying we knew they were evil.
Who's "we" and when exactly did "we" know they were evil and how did that influence national policy considerations? Did America decide collectively or through our political leadership that it was our national mission to fight wars against "evil" governments? Was the USSR not an "evil" government? Why did Roosevelt have to wait for a German declaration of war upon the United States if we decided to go to war because we knew they were evil?
Is it "without question worth goin to war" with any government or state actor that someone thinks is "evil?" Is that what you think constitutes a sensible foreign policy in the first place?
Posted on 12/5/17 at 9:10 pm to OMLandshark
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the NYT was there to report on it.
Funny how the NYT was able to report on Nanking yet the Holocaust somehow got by them...
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