of course it couldn't have had anything to do with the fact that while europe was embroiled in both world wars for a couple of years we were busy selling arms and supplies to europe and getting rich in the process.
A factor, albeit a relatively minor one.
of course we also had a couple more years to train, mobilize, and build up our forces for war. and of course the warring factions in europe weren't weakened after fighting bloody battles while we were building our strength over here an ocean away. nah, that couldn't have had anything to do with it
Except in Craig Crawford's America we would have been doing no such thing. After all, the war's way "over there", why should we waste money on something that doesn't affect us?
why don't you explain exactly how the war was going to come over here and threaten us? i need details, not some comment like the one from victor about belgium.
There are many possible scenarios, but one I tend to favor has Britain as the lynch pin. They weren't going to hold out forever. Hitler was working on the A-bomb too, you know. Once Britain fell and Germany had control of their navy as well as their Caribbean possessions, now they're just a few hundred miles away, with a nice island chain leading them right up to Miami. Sure, all that might have taken another five or ten years after Pearl Harbor, but what would you have done to stop it? At what point would you have finally conceded that Hitler was enough of a threat to actually start doing something about?
Now that I've fulfilled your request for "details", could you satisfy my curiosity and explain exactly how FDR goaded the Japanese into bombing Pearl Harbor? |
