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RPK your spouting Liberal revisionist History...There was no propaganda campaign to go after Germany first. Germany declared war on the US on December 11th 1941. After that the Japs and Krauts were looked on as fair game. Roosvelt and Churchill saw Germany as the greater threat because of its INDUSTRIAL CAPABILTY.

It was the incomprensible loss of China to the Communists that turned America to looking into its closets for Commies."How could we lose China, it musta bin a Commie conspiracy in our own government." Politics until the 1970s was hard fought but at the end of the day represenatives from both parties would sit down and have a drink together. Both Parties who set aside differences when it came to the National Defence or the Good of the Country. Take Nixon not demanding a recount in Ill, over the Democratic voter fraud in Chicago in the 1960 Presidnetial election. He did it for the GOOD of the Country. His Words not mine...

It was George Washington who set America on an Isolationist bent. He said, "Avoid foreign entanglements." meaning don't get involved in European squables as it is a drain on resources time and attention. Even after WW2 the US was returning to its Isolationist ways, but cutting the military budgets to the bone. Slowly it dawned on the US around 1948 that the USSR was up to NO GOOD, China was lost in 49, the Soviets exploded their Bomb, which was helped by Americans spying for the Soviets. S Korea was invaded by the North in 50 and Truman had to scrape the bottom of the military barrel to come up with troops to repel the North Koreans.