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Originally posted by Netspeed
Unfortunately, we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. There have been periods in our history where we have just sat back and let the world go by and then they all cried when things got out of whack.
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That's a statement based on propaganda. The British spent millions of dollars (Pounds Sterling if you wish) on paid propaganda to steer America towards World War One and Two.
The notion that the european powers "cried" because America was uninvolved is simply myth. What Britain, who in 1939 controlled 1/6th of the earth's land mass, was cannon fodder to enable them to invade and totally conquer Germany, an industrial power house that England had been deathly afraid of since the turn of the 20th century.
In fact, after learning quite a bit about the world prior to World War One, I have to say that America should have remained clear of that war, or if it had to enter it on one side or the other, should have sided with the Germans against the French and British.