[Tokra]

Maybe he's saddened because no one told him when Israel was made the 51st state...or maybe because he thought George Washington had it right when he counseled his fellow Americans to avoid foreign entanglements:

You mean foreign entanglements like fighting the Nazi's? They didn't attack us, Japan did. So according to your views - we shouldn't have been involved.

After Iran expressed it's goal "wipe Israel off the map" - we should again "avoid foreign entaglements"? And do nothing?

What should we do? (don't tell me what we SHOULDN'T do) - tell me what we SHOULD do about Iran's threats?

[Irontank]

You mean foreign entanglements like fighting the Nazi's? They didn't attack us, Japan did. So according to your views - we shouldn't have been involved

First, Germany declared war on the US first...but even that aside, is it clear that American involvement in WWII saved lives?...we fought on the side of the Communist Soviets and helped it defeat its avowed enemy Nazi Germany...yet the Soviet Union was a nation which may itself have killed 50 million people...Communism worldwide may have killed over 100 million...the post-WWII carving up of Europe by the Allies and Soviets left all of Eastern Europe in shackles behind the Iron Curtain

Maybe, it retrospect, we in America would have been best off letting the Communists and Nazis destroy each other

[mathprof2]

Why were we fighting the Nazis when they didn't attack us? Didn't they declare war on us a few days after Pearl Harbor?

[Dave Elias]

"You mean foreign entanglements like fighting the Nazi's? They didn't attack us"

Yes they did by declaring war in 1941.