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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
The reality is there are people that would harm us in unspeakable ways, given half a chance, that's why the Constitution provides for the military to defend our borders. I believe the last time this happened was WWII, all subsequent wars do not qualify.
So if you want to rail against the misuse of the military, pick any other war.  |
The Axis Powers--even assuming they had the intent--didn't have "half a chance." The United States was not conquerable. The Germans couldn't manage to cross the English Channel, for Christ's sake!
As far as Japan goes, they did not attack the American homeland--they attacked a military base in a stolen colony after a good deal of intentional provocation. They were not about to land in San Francisco and rape everyone's sister.
WW2 is not the most justifiable American war--when looking at the global picture, and setting aside grade-school nonsense about how Hitler was uniquely evil--it is the least justified. A war in which Hitler, Tojo, Chiang, Mao and Stalin all met ruin at one another's hands was a fantasy almost too good to be true. But it would've been true had we not screwed it up, just as we always manage to do when interventionists are in power.