This might be of interest. The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War by Jacques R. Pauwels
Very good points, you can only really expect political philosophers/theorists to engage in this type of discussion
How about, to mix it up a bit, we have a ‘struggle session’ on the theoretical level? Instead of using topics to have proxy debates about conceptions of justice and autonomy, we just lay out clearly our differing views of justice, autonomy, democracy, intellectual property, etc.
You need to subject her to a struggle session.