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I've more than once seen conservatives make the claim that only the Japanese attacked us in WWII, but we went after the Germans for moral reasons. Without debating the moral reasons to get into the European war (which are unquestionable) or the validity of the analogy (which is extremely questionable), this statement is simply not historically true.
Germany declared war on us, four days after Pearl Harbor. The Germans attacked us first, well before that - there were several U-boat attacks in the summer and fall of 1941. And I'm not entirely certain, but I strongly suspect they were the first to attack after the declaration of war as well. You can look it up.
If your opponent can't manage to get the most basic facts of 20th century american military history straight, I wouldn't take too seriously his opinion of something like why we had bases in Saudi Arabia.
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