Paulie
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This doesn't mitigate the fact that people use WW2 as the basis for the US getting out of the GD.
If that's what it really took us to strengthen our economy, then I'd rather be poor.
Japan sneaked us. We dropped some bombs on them. All of the rest of the bullshit wasn't necessary. We were attacked around the beginning of the war, and waited until the END to finally retaliate against our original aggressors.
Everything in between those two events was nonsense.
My impression in reading the above is that you are joking or you have a serious misunderstanding of history as regards the conflict in the Pacific. A lot of very brave young men died in the Pacific Theater of the war. That island hopping campaign was expensive in human life. We finally got close enough so we could fly bombers from the islands near Japan. We were in a position to be able to bomb Japan back to the stone age. Being able to do so and demonstrating it in marked fashion brought an end to the war.
I suppose you misunderstood what I meant. We spent 4 years fighting against other countries that had nothing to do with attacking us. Japan attacked us. Why that means we should just go all in and spend 4 years fighting in the entire world war, I'll never understand.