We haven’t captured him and we aren’t going to capture him because he has been dead for many years.
“Maybe FDR’s constituency realized that you had to have a Congressional declaration to go to war and that it’s generally best not to get involved in foreign entanglements.”
No, FDR’s constituency was full of ignorant ‘isolationists’. And I know Ron Paul isn’t one (ie isolationist), he’s a non-interventionist...which is just barely different. The constitution wasn’t the reason why.
Read into the history and get back to me on that.
“In fact, it was our entanglement in WWI under Wilson that helped set the stage for the rise of Hitler and WWII.”
I’ll agree with you on that. I didn’t favor an entrance in that war [the first one], because it could have played itself out. Our entrance over did the victory and played into Hitler’s rise via the Versaille Treaty.
But the second entrance was absolutely necessary, once we realized our allies were facing definitive loses without us, and our security was at risk. FDR was never neutral durning that era [FYI], and he knew that Hitler wouldn’t just leave America alone.
If it weren’t for FDR’s active role in baiting in the Japanese, we’d have an incredible disadvantage in fighting Germany and Japan. I don’t believe Ron Paul would do what FDR did (ie actively seek war). He would just let the whole cookie crumble.
A pragmatic mind is necessary in a conflicting world.
“I think that our continued presence there actually destabilizes the region more than our leaving would in the end.”
There are many opinions on that,...I’m willing to see it through.