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Originally Posted by superart
***I just read 9 pages of posts, and I really don't want to go back through them all to get exact quotes. I will try to paraphrase as accurately as I can***
"Japan attacked us, yet we attacked Germany"
--Lothar
That is really not an accurate conclusion to make. First, Japan and Germany were official allies in a war. By attacking Germany we were hurting Japan and helping allies that could in turn help us later with Japan. Second, German U-boats had a bad habit of knowingly sinking US merchant ships, and civilian passenger liners withe US citizens on board.
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You are right, the point is as I stated above. Many very popular Americas wanted us to stay out of WW2. The lend lease program was extremely controversial and may people thought the Germans were justified in sinking our merchant ships with war material on board. The wisdom of the time was to stop sending war material to England and remain out of another European War.
Many people made the economic arguments ageist the war as well…this is for big business that have investments in Europe etc ect….It’s great stuff I high recommend reading about American foreign policy 1932 to 1942. You get to see how many arguments are just retreads.