Sometimes pre-emptive wars are necessary. Even though Germany did not declare directly war on us, had we not declared war on Germany in WWII, you would be speaking German, whether you liked it or not.
On that we will need to agree to disagree. We the people need a strong defense but for the USA only, not for the world.
Premptive wars are aka crony capitalism, where the rules can be bent not for America, but for those who benefit. It is about those that have who get more because taxpayers are forced to subsidize them. Wrong...you make a bet on a business and if you fail, you take the loss not taxpayers. Capitalism is about risk/reward and not subsidies from taxpayers
Other countries that wish to utilize our Dept of Defense should be subsidizing us, and not vice versa. We’re broke, remember.
From Diplomatic History of WW II
The U.S. declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941.
On December 11, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S.A.
Later that same day, the U.S.A. declared war on Germany and Italy.
There is some question whether there would have been sufficient political support to declare war on Germany and Italy had they not declared war on us.
Wrong... On BOTH COUNTS. Preemptive wars are always wrong and Germany DID declare war on us. The same day, if I recall my history correctly, we declared war on Japan. Then Italy followed suit.