[Grizzled Bear]

My comment was in regards to my previous statement that “there are only losers when people turn to violence.” We, the USA, the world, lost lives. The key word here is ‘lost’. This is what happens when people turn to violence.

Meanwhile, the Nazis invaded their neighbors. They slaughtered many and enslaved even more in their government factories. Their goal was world domination. Their friends, the Japanese, attacked America on our own soil.

I'd say American lives were lost before any American Soldier set foot in any of the WWII Theaters of War during WWII when American sailors died in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Do you think the United States should have "taken it on the chin" and waited it out until the Axis powers set up shop in our cities?

You cannot possibly be real. If you are, I blame our public school system.

[muglywump]

“Do you think the United States should have “taken it on the chin” and waited it out until the Axis powers set up shop in our cities?”

No. We did what we needed to and should have done in opposing Hitler. That said, it was a far stretch when the poster Balding_Eagle was trying to compare the violence brought on by Hitler and WWII to this incident on the bus.