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Sep 22, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
'For America, the war was a crusade against something, not for something. The typical American reaction to the war was to eradicate the threat which originally produced the war, to annihilate the enemy. 1/
Once war began, America tended to justify its actions in universal terms and pursue its goals with idealistic zeal. There was no limitation in the American way of fighting World War II. If America were to fight at all, it must fight all out. 2/
