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Free market buisnesses wrote:

WW2 was great though, we got to show up when the winning started and it helped get us out of the Great Depression. Wars are fantastic for our economy.That's because those weren't us "declaring war" it was just us "intervening in a communist uprising/peace keeping". Plus the draft from WW2 never expired. Also, just because they can't reach us doesn't mean they can't hurt us. They can still sink our civilian vessels and Germans are pretty good at industry and would've recently acquired quite a bit of size. With the Japanese on board with them we could be in trouble due to sheer quantity of resources and an inhibited ability to export/import with overseas nations.

I agree that we had a good reason to enter WW2, and all and all it really helped out our economy while doing some good for the world. However I know that from hindsight, if i had been alive at the time i would have been very hesitant to enter the war. Especially knowing how WW1 went for us, thousands of Americans dead in a European war for no gain whatsoever. I'd be a fool to repeat that mistake, especially during the great depression. And that's how most Americans thought at that time, if the Axis had never declared war on us its doubtful we would have entered the war at all.