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Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival, starting with the shock of Pearl Harbor. Isolationishm turned to intervention in the "Good War." I won't defend any war after that...
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> Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival

Right, they did. But in retrospect, was it actually?

If the US had stayed neutral from the beginning, do we think Japan would have bombed America's military base?

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Wars are part of nature. It is inevitable. So your proposition is based on wrong assumptions.
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