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My god those comparisons are stupid. Was the U.S. getting involved in WW2 a severe overreaction since Americans were massively more likely to die of polio or bl
by twoodfin 13y ago
My god those comparisons are stupid. Was the U.S. getting involved in WW2 a severe overreaction since Americans were massively more likely to die of polio or black lung than Japanese or German bombs?
- SideburnsOfDoom 13y agoA foreign military's bombs were intended as a prelude to invasion or destruction of the entire military capacity. A terrorist attack is a prelude to ... nothing much.
- twoodfin 13y agoI don't think Japan was interested in destroying our entire military capacity, just enough to get us out of the Pacific. It wasn't a radically dissimilar aim than Al Qaeda's goal to get us out of the Islamic world, though just about everything else about the two events was different. As for a terrorist attack being "a prelude to ... nothing much", you know there was a first World Trade Center bombing, right?