if world war 2 happened in current times, would most americans support a war against hitler?

Question

whose side would the media be on? what would be the liberal position on the matter?

Answer 1

I am quite liberal, and you bet your @ss I would fight for a situation like WW2. I am for wars that have to be fought, But this current war is BS. We are creating more enemys than we can ever annilate every more day we are in Iraq. (which I know this question is closely related to) I am not saying that saddam is a good person, he was an @sshole that murdered thousands of people after an assination attempt. He had nothing to do with 9/11. If you ask me that country is so screwed up with two different kind of cultures in the same location, that maybe it takes an @sshole to rule them. We were lied to about iraq's role in 9/11. If we cared about 9/11 bin laden would never have gotten away. And we only would have been in afghanistan, and saudi arabia to get the terrorists. And if it was human rights we cared about, this many military personell would have went to rowanda and countless other places after massacares occured. The problem with alot of right wing people in this country is that they just want to believe whatever the president says, never admit they were wrong after the fact, and hardly ever question what they learn. But back to WW2, you bet your @ss I would have to fight, and with honor.

Answer 2

Are you kidding??? It was the conservatives who fought tooth and nail for us NOT to fight in the first two world wars.
Honestly the media would be saying how many Jews are dying and something has to be done but until Hitler got to the Middle East (OIL) or got his Japenese allies to attack Hawaii we would stay out.........oops....my bad......that's what we actually really did. It would happen the same way again. I don't hear not a one of the conservatives today saying we should go to the Sudan to stop the killing.

It's amazing that so many of these people above me know nothing about Hitler and history in general. Yeah I know libs are against the war today but this was not always so. In those days it was the conservative businness people who did not want war because it messed up their money. Christian conservatives were completely anti-war as a block back then also because many were of german ancestry and many did not like jews that much anyway.

Answer 3

I don't think Hitler would have been able to rise to power in current times. However, if he did, I think the US would support a war against him. The media would spin it anyway they had to in order to get attention. I'm not a liberal (or a conservative either), so I don't know what their position would be.

Answer 4

My bet would be that there would be no Democrats, Republicans, liberals or conservatives (in general)....only Americans wanting to get the job done. A single and clear cut objective, an evil dictator, one of the greatest butchers of the 20th Century (second only to Joe Stalin). If WW2 happened in current times, the war would've been over in less than a year.....afterall, we've got the stealthy planes, Abrams, tactical nukes, which weren't around back in the day..

Answer 5

You need to read the history books.

At the time of WWII the US did not want to get into the war and adopted an isolationist policy thereby abstained from helping any countries until they had to and only went to war when they had not other choice. The country was not divided so badly then because Roosevelt was essentially the US Dictator and whatever he wanted; he got. He had, after all, pulled the US out of the Dust Bowl, Bank Crashes, and the Great Depression. He was a liberal; the Republicans conservatives were the ones who were not wanting to go to war and he had to fight them to declare war when it had to be done.

Answer 6

We were asked to help England on many occasions, by Winston Churchill, but president Roosevelt didn't want to get us into the war. There have been many stories about how he had his intelligence tell him that the Japanese were on there way to bomb our fleet at Pearl Harbor, and he just let it happen so we would have an excuse to get into the war. We did not go to war against Germany. We were at war with Japan because they attacked us. England was at war with Hitler, and we joined them after entering the war. No one questioned weather we should be in the war, they just did there part to help win the war. If we had the same kind of war protesters then, as we do today, we would all be speaking Japanese or German. Shame on us.

Answer 7

The American people were happy to sacrifices and go on rations during WW2. Women were happy to go to work and support the families. They supported the troops and the war knowing that America was helping another country. They didn't have polls to check the popularity of the president and the newspapers printed more positive comments not just negative comments.

Answer 8

English Prime Minister Nevel Chamberlain met with Hitler at Hitler's Alpine getaway called Berchtesgarden on September 15th. Hitler threatened war, but promised him that this was the 'last poblem to be solved'. Chamberlain decided that Hitler was a man who can be relied upon and he met for talks with the French who together pursuaded the Czechs to hand over Sudetenland. Also, that the Sudetenland should be occupied by Germany before October 1st.

Hitler then assured Chamberlain that he had 'no more territorial ambitions in Europe'. Chamberlain was not sure that an issue like Czechoslovakia was one of the 'great issues' that justified war. Instead, he decided that it was 'a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing'. At meetings in Munich on September 29th, Britain and Grance agreed to give the Sudetenland to Germany. Czechoslovakia was not even consulted at the talks. Chamberlain returned to Entgland with his famous 'piece of paper'. Chamberlain told the cheering crowd that he believes it is peace for our time.

Answer 9

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

True then True Now.

Answer 10

The US part of the war started because of Pearl Harbor. That was on the other side of the world. Hitler merely chimed in, formally.