ccs178 Wrote:

georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:Hitler attacked our allies unprovoked. We then followed the Constitution and Just War Theory and Congress declared war.

Your grasp of history is lacking. I'll sum it up for you.

Hitler/Germany invaded Poland. (We stayed out)
UK, et al declared war on Germany (we stayed out)
Germany invaded France, Belgium and the Netherlands (we stayed out)
Germany lays siege (The Blitz) against the UK in preparation for invasion (we stayed out)
Meanwhile Japan is raping China and most of Southeast Asia (We stayed out)
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (We declare war on Japan, not Germany, but we don't actually start fighting them until 4-5 months later)
Germany declares war on the USA.
USA declares war on Axis.

the larger issue is the Left and Isolationist are viewing things through a WW1 prism, in which they felt Germany had every right to be left alone and we should "butt out....have no business in their matters"....which is why everything you note ended up happening and millions died as a result and we were lucky to win WW2 as it was.

while the rest of us look at it through a WW2/Cold War prism more so, combined with globalization, etc.

Imagine if Hitler had got nukes like Iran is trying to get......Hitler announced everything he was going to do well before he did it and the world yawned minus Winston Churchill.