Reply #139: Actually the US was 'unofficially' fighting in WW2 before Pearl Harbor [View All]

Before the Japanese bombed pearl harbor we were having an undeclared navy war with Germany. Germany didn't like it that we were trading with their enemies, and helping the British with policies like loaning weapons and such to 'any nation that the US deems the survival of vital to US interests'.

As for your question, Hitler was a crazy and dangerous lunatic that we should have taken out sooner. With how rapidly the axis powers were turning on allies and conquering them it must have been difficult to sleep at night, fearing that they might invade your country next, especially if you lived next to one of the Axis powers. If the US had just sat back and done nothing then the Axis powers could have gotten so powerful from taking over so many countries that even we wouldn't have been able to stop them if they decided to invade our homeland.

Other wars that are justified are hard to think of, other then fighting against an oppressive government. So you could argue the revolutionary war was 'necessary', or 'justified'. The revolutionary war though was caused more by British incompetence then anything though. I mean for a few centuries they mostly ignored the colonies and didn't tax them, gave them benefits like their soldiers coming to fight for us when we needed them. Then one day the British suddenly decided "hey wait a second, there's a bunch of taxable revenue in these colonies, they don't vote for us members of parliament, so none of us disagree".

It would be like having a kid, and letting them do whatever the heck they want for years as they grow up from a baby, never teaching them discipline or to behave, and spoiling them a whole lot. And then when that kid becomes teenager suddenly telling them "you will learn to behave and follow all of these rules". It just wouldn't work out, you can't expect them to not rebel against such a dramatic shift from 'yeah do whatever you want', to strict discipline.