[Common Tator]

This sounds like the argument in WWII that Japan attacked us. There was no reason to get into a war with Hitler until we had conquered Japan.

Hind sight shows that had we done so, Hitler would have had Atomic weapons log before we did.

Had our "Greatest Generation" followed this advice, the people making it today would not be alive to make it.

[ppaul]

Had our "Greatest Generation" followed this advice, the people making it today would not be alive to make it.

How soon, as a nation, we have forgotten!

[traditionalist]

This sounds like the argument in WWII that Japan attacked us. There was no reason to get into a war with Hitler until we had conquered Japan.

False analogy. Japan and Germany had a formal alliance, so declaring war on Japan meant that we automatically were at War with Germany. True, we declared war on Germany seperately, but that was not strictly speaking necessary.

[pgkdan]

This sounds like the argument in WWII that Japan attacked us. There was no reason to get into a war with Hitler until we had conquered Japan.

Hell with this kind of thinking we'd still be fighting WWII...fighting in 1 country at a time. Clean the Nazi's out of Italy and defeat Il Duce's fascists...make sure every one of them are dead...and then stick around long enough to found a stable gov't and rebuild their armed forces for defensive purposes. We would have been finished there by 1950 or 51 and then we could have tackled France. Of course by now Hitler would have the whole of France thoroughly occupied, but so what...how many wars do people expect us to fight at the same time? Sheesh!

Someone should tell this guy that we're not fighting two different wars...it's the same damned war!