December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy

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Originally Posted by sarettah

In WWII we actually attacked the enemy though

By Feb 1942 most Republicans were hoping very much that people would forget that they had been staunch isolationists, and thus partially responsible for the fact that America was so ill-prepared for the war. They did, however, expend a great deal of energy accusing Roosevelt of "getting us into the war."

I cannot recall a single instance of the WWII Allies going into a country to destroy its civil and military command and control capabilities with an inadequate occupation force, or executing a strategy specifically designed to bring the Nazis (or Facists or Japanese) in so we could fight them there.