Robert Higgs is a MAROOON!
I suppose Roosevelt also pushed the Japanese to rape Nanking in China and kill several hundred thousand Chinese (before we imposed export restrictions on the Japanese) and brutalize Indochina and take Koreans as sex slaves.
And to compare our current Republican President to the Democrat President Johnson! Johnson lied during the 1994 election about what he was planning to do in Vietnam, while Bush is pulling no punches in letting us know his intentions in regard to Saddam Hussein and Iraq before this election.
“I suppose Roosevelt also pushed the Japanese to rape Nanking in China …”
No, but that is not the reason we went to war. We went to war because of Pearl Harbor.
American don’t go to war unless they perceive they that they are in immediate and present danger. They knew about the Rape of Nanking and did nothing but sympathize. They knew about what was happening to the European Jews and did nothing – but turn away those who tried to flee here. They knew about the sacking of Kuwait, but until oil prices were threatened there was little support.
We do indeed view war as a last resort. If we need a lie to bring us to war, that’s just the way it is.