Germany declared war on the US, not the other way around. Furthermore, the Germans were conducting genocide against the Jews, which under international law is a legitimate justification for intervention (although I'm not sure how much was known about the treatment of the Jews at the time the US entered WWII).
Brett
>>>That weapons are tools for changing an adversary's mind
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>>I don't agree. Weapons should not be tools used to change minds, but for
>>self-defense. A disagreement is not sufficient justification for violence.
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>>Brett
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>So U.S. intervention in World War II--definitely not in self-defense, and
>definitely with the aim of changing the German military's mind about
>whether it wanted to be ruled by Nazis--was unjustified?
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>Brad DeLong