[hellbender]

I'm not trying to defend R. Paul, just to inject some balance. What did we get out of WWII? A Soviet Union (which slaughtered at least 3x as many innocent human beings as Hitler) in control of E. and Central Europe, restrained only by U.S. nuclear weapons. Communist control of China and half of Korea. The National Socialists had no designs on America, nor did Japan. The Communists did and still do.

WWII was an inevitable consequence of our totally unjustified intervention in WWI, where no U.S. security interests were involved, but liberal fascist Wilson had to meddle.

Even those obsessed with the survival of Israel need to consider where our intervention in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East has led us. Israel is now painted into a corner. Millions of Christians face genocide or exile. Thanks a lot, rich punk G.W. Bush, for listening to the Clintonist CIA director who led you to invade Iraq. Thanks for lying during the campaign that you were against nation-building (in Haiti, right in our hemisphere), then pursuing unprecedented nation-building thousands of miles away.

The country is broke. Wars and interventions inevitably lead to unforeseen adverse consequences. We need to bring the troops home and defend our homeland from illegal immigrants and stop Muslim immigration.

[ChuckHam]

You don’t have to defend RP because you sound like you are him.

You are a complete idiot if you think we shouldn’t have entered WWII. Of course that’s understandable since you appear to be RP.

Furthermore, WWII was not a result of us entering WWI. WWII was a direct result of the sanctions imposed on Germany at the conclusion of WWI.

Finally, our invasion of Iraq has nothing to do with the fact that the Arabs always have and always will desire the complete and utter destruction of Israel. The islamonazis don’t hate us or Israel anymore now than they did 30 years ago.

[montyspython]

You really have to think about what you just wrote, had the US not entered the war the Nazis would have had the bomb and millions of Jews and Slavs would have been slaughtered and enslaved.

This type of historical para-analytics is dangerous, really really dangerous.

[Sam Gamgee]

I don't entirely disagree with, but keep in mind many at the time that opposed WWII were about to lose lucrative business contracts with Germany. Meaning many American Firsters were compromised by a pro-German sympathy.

[Designer]

"..just to inject some balance."

Thanks for the balance, hellbender.

Excellent post!