[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Drudge linked to an article from some Brit commentator that shows all the awful things America has done to the UK, and what really caught my eye was how we entered the world wars late and that our losses weren't much compared to Britain's. It never occurs to these folks that our people died by the thousands to save THEIR land--we weren't in any immediate danger. (I'm not against our fighting in these wars, and of course we would have ended up fighting WW2 sooner or later--that's not the issue.)

If you read

The New Dealers' War:

FDR and the War Within World War II
by Thomas Fleming

you learn that the US was very loathe to get into WWII; right up until Pearl Harbor opposition to it polled 80%.

But then, the British jubilantly greeted Neville Chamberlain as a hero when he came back from his meeting to appease Hitler proclaiming "Peace in our time." So much for the idea that the British were more eager to fight Germany than the US was.

You also realize that the US was in the 1940s still not really over the War of 1812 enough to think that the British Empire was a good thing.

The US was anticolonialist. Monroe Doctrine, and all that . . .

[Darkwolf377]

Good post. I will check out that book.

But then, the British jubilantly greeted Neville Chamberlain as a hero when he came back from his meeting to appease Hitler proclaiming "Peace in our time." So much for the idea that the British were more eager to fight Germany than the US was.

Funny how the article Drudge linked didn't mention any of that. Well, not really.