In the runup years to WWII, while Hitler was expanding, two world leaders saw it, discussed it, prepared for it. FDR and Churchill.
At the time, the GOP was non-interventionist. WWI had been awful, and within a few years nothing was really settled. Hence the non-interventionists decided it best to stay out of Europe’s centuries long wars.
Had the US jumped into Europe sooner, it may have hastened the defeat of Hitler. Nobody knows.
Since then, the GOP has shifted poles, now favoring “peace through strength” as Reagan advised.
The GOP anti-war, non-interventionists are whackos.
I would argue that any war worth fighting is worth starting and finishing fast, minimum dead Americans, maximum destruction and dead enemies.
The idea of saving muslims’ lives is misguided.
After WWII the Japanese knew who won the war, knew why the US dropped nuclear bombs on their citizens.
We owe muslims no less certainty.
Well that’s the Commie/Collectivist view of WW2. The other view is more nuanced and favors an America 1st strategy instead of the FDR/Churchill Fascism vs Fascism. Hoover and Patton alluded to the real mistake of WW2....we should have finished off Stalin before being involved in the Pacific or Europe. I wager that eventually we will know the truth about the machinations by FDR/his Commie Adm. and the idiot Churchill’s manipulations of our country into allying with the evil totalitarian Stalin....murderer of > 100 million innocents!