France was a distant second to Russia in Hitler’s mind. I wish our conservative politicians would take heed to the commonsense lesson of history that if there’s going to be a war, it’s best to be the last power to enter when the rest of the world is weakened and exhausted. Today’s “tough on defense” politicians seem to have their heart set on our nation to be in on every war all over the globe, ensuring that if a real threat ever did arise, we’d be broke and bled when the crisis arose.