re: #30 Lidane

Our European allies might have a bone to pick with that, given that they were busy fighting the Axis for well over two years before Pearl Harbor prodded us to join the war.

One of the chief authors of the infamous Lubbock County Republican platform insists that the US was not justified in going to war in 1941. He claims that we provoked the Japanese by “moving into the Pacific” (in 1898) and that Churchill and a Wilsonian cabal manipulated us into the war with the Nazis. He knows better than to spell out who made up most of this cabal, but you don’t have to be a canine to hear that dog-whistle.
This is pretty much standard John Birch Society dogma; no surprise since the JBS counts many local Republicans among its membership.