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Originally posted by Howard Agency
Germany declared war on the US a few days after Pearl Harbor and began unrestricted attacks on American shipping. We could have remained isolationist and not responded to that or Pearl Harbor, but IMHO we did the proper thing.
You don't? Really?
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Without getting into Roosevelt's act of war against Germany in September, 1940; the German Declaration of war was of low intensity.
The proper response to Germany, which did declare war against the US, was to defend America against German attacks. There was no reason, at all, to Concentrate 85% of the war effort against Germany, while the country that actually attacked a part of America was dealt with by 15%. That's not to mention the tens of thousands of US soldiers in Japanese POW camps that could have been liberated not just months earlier, but years earlier if the concentration of military men and material were accurately focused.