Clinton Huxley wrote:Well, one might have hoped that the denizens of the "shining city on the hill" might be a little more forward in stepping up to defeat a monstrous evil but hey.....
The context of the start of World War 2, viewed from what was known in 1939, 1940 and 1941, is quite different from what was known in 1945 and 1946.
Moreover, when Britain conquered most of the South Pacific and a lot of East and South Asia, and incorporated into its Empire, which it held until the Japanese started making inroads into it, that was "good?" And, the Japanese colonials getting into a dispute and fight with British colonials over colonies held at gunpoint by one or the other is something the US ought to felt a moral motivation to involve itself?
And, in 1939, the squabbles between European colonial powers was the moral obligation of the United States to involve itself? (prior, of course, to there being any sort of Holocaust, which was actually committed for the most part after the US became involved.