[Future Snake Eater]

Which not only clearly shows we lacked strategic goals (if we were thinking strategically we’d have let Patton keep going East like he wanted)

did the war result in lasting peace

Were these strategic goals for WWII? Should they have been?

[discostu]

I don’t think we actually had any strategic goals for WWII. And yes they probably should have been. One of the big changes we’ve had the last few decades in how we view the world is the realization that if all you do with one war is set the stage for the next that first war was kind of pointless. And expending large quantities of human lives and pointless should really never be in the same sentence.