I'm trying to figure out what you're saying... We've made "friends" of our former enemies after kicking their collective asses, and have (mostly, up till Obama) friendly relations with them.
Are you saying that once we achieved victory over Germany and Japan we should have enslaved them, or wiped them off the face of the earth? Or just set up a Treaty of Versailles, PT2? As opposed to the Marshall Plan, force them to rebuild themselves AND pay us reparations? I'm not trying to be an ass here, but given your above statement, I'm wondering just what you mean?
Mark
FDR, who was a socialist, provoked the Japs into attacking us by waging economic warfare against them and supplying the red Chinese , and was doing his best to provoke the Germans into an incident that would serve as a pretext to go to war.
http://mises.org/daily/6312/
He was doing this to draw the US into the war to end the depression he exacerbated with his socialist policy's.
Post war I think was handled just fine.
As a parent, you don't want your kid killed or injured in a foreign war unless there is a good reason.
Bailing out a socialist in the WH and enriching the military industrial complex by fighting countries that we had relatively friendly relationships with since the nations founding and who in very short order after hostilities ceased were again good friends seems pointless and wrong.
How many good Americans died fighting the Japs, Germans , and Italians, and what was the point of their sacrifice?
Some have said stopping fascism was necessary, yet Fascism is alive and well right here in the USA and is getting worse every day.