Got this in my Inbox

[Sethomas]

Just as a side thought, I bet the guy in the email was seven when Pearl Harbor was attacked, not when the war was started. Just given the American way of thinking, you know.

With the War of 1812, British instigation happened in international waters UNTIL, I think, we invaded Canada.

I also thought that Pancho Via was Mexican. I seem to remember that all of the Spanish American War was fought abroad in Cuba and the Phillipines, and the Mexican American War was fought entirely in the Republic of Texas--not then American soil. Likewise, Pearl Harbor was not yet a state at the time, so I would call it an American interest but not an invasion of America.

I could be wrong. I was always bored by American history class.