And also. America sees itself as some kind of defender of the free. Surely it had a moral obligation to stand side by side with its "free" friends and fight Naziism, rather than staying out of the majority of the fight. It was quick enough to expect its alies to join in it's pathetic war on terror in Iraq of all places. I've never understood the American view of "helping us in WW2"
There is no "American view". America is possibly the most politically diverse country in the world. When you say, "America sees itself" or "the American view", you are falling into the same pattern of stereotyping that you are criticizing DirtDawg for engaging in.
Yes. It was a poor choice of phrase. I meant those who see Ameruca as the white knight of WW2.
We might not have won it by ourselfs but without the manufacturing power and the military of the US you would have been in very sad shape. We supplied a lot of the arms for all the allies. As for our current venture in Iraq I tend to agree
I'm not arguing about who won the war. I'm saying that America, in my eyes had an absolute moral responsibilty to stand side by side with us throughout WW2 against the forces of Nazism.
That does seem like it's what you meant
Well. It's not what I mweant. To me America was no white knight. America should have thrown its stall in with us right from the beginning. It was its moral responsbility to do so. It certainly had far more moral responsiblity to help us during WW2 than the rest of the world had to help America in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That is a different issue to arguing about whether the war would have been won without Americvas help. The truth is I don't know the answer to that, and therefore am in no position to argue on that matter.