Are there any just wars?

Not "officially", but Lend-Lease had been in effect already, the AVG was forming and on their way to China, and at least three US Navy ships had been attacked by the Axis, damaged and/or sunk with scores of USA sailors wounded and killed.

Point you miss or reject is that there was a pre- and during the war interventionism by the USA in the ME.
That was mostly FDR, who felt that joining the war was a just cause. It was not the foreign policy consensus that developed after the war and during the Cold War.
 
It does get a little weird when Trump tells us he "totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear capability, and then tells us a few weeks later that Iran is about to nuke us.

He can always get away with insulting the flock's intelligence, such as it is, but it really doesn't work on the rest of the world.
The only intelligence being insulted is yours and that is because of the lack of it.

Do you deny that Iran began rebuilding their nuclear sites, or not?
 
That was mostly FDR, who felt that joining the war was a just cause. It was not the foreign policy consensus that developed after the war and during the Cold War.
He needed Congressional approval for the Lend-Lease.
Consensus afterward means a majority of Congress approved the policies, which were essentially the same as during the war.
 
Having to go to war because you have been attacked (Department of Defense): Yes

Initiating a war because the other guy might do something (Department of War): No
We play with a different set of rules in this era, where being attacked means an inability to fight back after the fact. Anyone attacking us would certainly set off EMPs before the attack. They render any electronics worthless. Anything with a battery or computer board instantly dead. Unless our military is sitting in a giant faraday cage, we would be helpless. The enemy could destroy us with impunity.
 
We play with a different set of rules in this era, where being attacked means an inability to fight back after the fact. Anyone attacking us would certainly set off EMPs before the attack. They render any electronics worthless. Anything with a battery or computer board instantly dead. Unless our military is sitting in a giant faraday cage, we would be helpless. The enemy could destroy us with impunity.
YUP!
Too many on this board are about 50-60 years out of date on current world situations.
 
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