American Greatness
Daniel Gelernter
May 30, 2017
By late 1940, Japan had conquered Manchuria and was pushing south and west across China. Japan planned to subdue China and then turn east, towards American possessions in the Philippines, Guam, Wake, and Hawaii. President Roosevelt wanted to fight Japan in China before the war came to us, but what we’d now call “boots on the ground” was politically impossible: America had recently helped win the largest war in history, and wanted to let the rest of the world stew in its own juice.
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