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Well, WWI was payback for Lafeyette.

No, our banks wanted the loans they gave the Allies repaid. That wasn't going to happen in a stalemate.

We should, however, have not allowed the French to enacted a retributive peace treaty on Germany.

Where else were they going to get the money to repay the United States?

But, hind sight is 20/20 and who could have known the French would be so cowardly when the NAZIs rose up?

Kinda hard to fight when all your men died in the first war.

As for WWII, we had no choice. Japan attacked us, and Germany declared war on us.

Funny how that happens when you blockade a country dependent upon imports.

No, our banks wanted the loans they gave the Allies repaid. That wasn't going to happen in a stalemate.

Well there is no doubt this played a role, the average American saw it as returing the favor - and this was even made into a catch phrase by American soldiers.

Kinda hard to fight when all your men died in the first war.

WWI ended in 1918. WWII started in 1939. THat is a whole generation later.

As a matter of fact, the French army as of 1939 was considered to be the most powerful in the world - and was on paper more than a match for the Germans.

The problem was a lack of will, not manpower.