A lot of what happened in WW2 was because we came in after a lot of damage was already done. We came in after Russia and GB had already fought the Germans for a long time. And I'm not sure if we should be too excited about taking as long as we did to get into the war (it basically started 8 years before we entered it), only because we were "attacked". And we were only attacked because we were putting an oil embargo on Japan and they saw no other retaliation out there. And we only went after Germany because Japan and Germany were allies. So good for us. We came into WW2 late, cleaned up after a lot work that other countries did and have personally taken 90% of the credit for the positive outcome. And yet, the French are the ones people make fun of.