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In reply to the discussion: Suppose you're back in the WWII years and you just learn about German atrocities. [View all]joshcryer
(62,287 posts)14. That's why US corporations supported Nazi's until Pearl Harbor...
...the US would've stayed out of the whole thing were it not for Pearl Harbor.
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Suppose you're back in the WWII years and you just learn about German atrocities. [View all]
Dreamer Tatum
Feb 2015
OP
i'd wonder who you've identified as the present day nazis in this exercise, and why.
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#3
Liberals should never accept evil but we should always be smart in how we respond to it. n/t
pampango
Feb 2015
#9
In your opinion in what way, and when, did Nazi Germany become a threat to the US?
HereSince1628
Feb 2015
#12
incorrect Prescott Bush didn't stop until 1942 only when his bank was siezed
Ichingcarpenter
Feb 2015
#17
No, and we know that's not true. The Japanese are constitutionally prohibited from bothering ISIS.
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#26
Other: "I'm glad we're helping the USSR to liberate Europe and that the USSR is
KingCharlemagne
Feb 2015
#18
I misplaced my time machine, all I know is ISIS is the greatest evil and threat in the history of
dissentient
Feb 2015
#19
If all folks were being honest, a fair group of folks would be choosing the second option.
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#21
If we didn't go to war against Germany there would be no helping to liberate death camps
TheKentuckian
Feb 2015
#28
And it was not the government that did not want to go in - it was the people who did not want to
jwirr
Feb 2015
#40
Well in all fairness, you are dealing with people that do the same thing as Karl Rove
Rex
Feb 2015
#46
I don't know where you lived in the 40s but that was never the attitude in Iowa where I grew up
jwirr
Feb 2015
#39
The enlistment were after Pearl Harbor. As to the attitude most probably did not feel that way but
jwirr
Feb 2015
#47
By the time we knew (and we knew as early as 1942) the USA was already at war with Germany.
Spider Jerusalem
Feb 2015
#33
Probably: "Hey, maybe we should stop turning away Jewish refugees from Europe?" Or perhaps: "Maybe
Chathamization
Feb 2015
#35