Thank you for your very thoughtful, historical and knowledgeable reply.
America has been adrift for a very long time.
America has very poor foresight, and very little hindsight.
Churchill put it this way: “Amedicons always do the right thang, - - - aftuh they have tried ev-ry othuh possibility fuhst.”
We tend to wait for a “Pearl Harbor Moment” to recognize that we might have a problem.
Consequently, long term Communists such as Obama have no problem slowly turning up the heat on the pot of frogs swimming about in the ever-warming water - - - .
Yes, absolutely! There are legitimate reasons for not joining WWII, the strangest war ever, at the outset...but no reason whatsoever for not joining WWII right off the block.
Bush engaged directly after 9/11, when we were attacked directly, but one of the problems is that the places he focused on, with a strategic plan to convert them into secular states, appeared to have been beloved of the left. Or suddenly became beloved because they hated Bush so much. So he was shot down almost immediately.
We shouldn't wait this one out, because we can't. Once ISIL (and that means Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which is the correct translation, not Syria) conquers Iraq, they're moving on and will establish their caliphate, which unfortunately has been supplied with all our weapons and knowledge.
If Obama weren't on their side, he'd have responded already. But we have a unique circumstance here: The President of the US wants to destroy this country.
Sounds like Winston spent some time in the Caribbean ...