[HoundsTooth_BP]

It isn’t possible to say if it was a mistake because we can’t see other outcomes. Was it a mistake to fight Germany to save the USSR? I think so. Nazism could only ever appeal to a small group of people, Germans. Communism appeals globally and is a real threat, even to this very day. We helped the greater evil defeat the lesser when we should have waited to defeat whichever one of them was victorious (if we really wanted to fight).

[patriciaruth]

Of course, with a missle and the atom bomb, Hitler would not have cared if Nazi beliefs appealed to us.

[James W. Fannin]

Was it a mistake to fight Germany to save the USSR?

Dude. Read and learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact.

That was September 27th, 1940.

Also: SOME DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO THE ALLIANCE OF GERMANY, JAPAN, AND ITALY DURING WORLD WAR II The Anti-Comintern Pact was signed in 1936, and made it clear who was who in WWII.

You would be speaking German or Japanese now if we hadn't fought on the side of England in WWII.

[AliVeritas]

Great answer.

re: pro-life comment up thread

Exactly. We have seen legalized murder through our courts way before Dr. Jack and Schiavo.

[TigersEye]

Was it a mistake to fight Germany to save the USSR? I think so. Nazism could only ever appeal to a small group of people, Germans.

Holy smokes! Where do you get your history? Cracker Jacks boxes? lolololololol