[deadbeater]

Originally Posted by Radar

How long is that period supposed to be? We've been in Korea, Japan, and Germany constantly for the last 6 decades. Also, we don't owe "defense" to any country but our own, especially a country that attacked ours. In the case of Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan, etc. they didn't attack America first. In each of those cases, America injected itself into the battles that other nations were having. In these cases, America's involvement was not required and had unfortunate and unintended results.

If a country can't defend itself after starting a war with America, we don't owe them any defense at all. If they didn't start a war with America, we owe them a defense, and an apology for attacking them in the first place.

Germany's U-boats attacked US ships, albeit stored with supplies going to allies. And Japan did attack the Pacific Fleet stationed in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii on 7 December 1941.