ruveyn wrote:
Vigilans wrote:
The US military is about the only enviable thing you have, and to most countries outside of the US, China, North Korea, Iran, etc, military is not the item used to judge success. For the most part, the rest of the world just wants powers like the US to leave them alone. The US was a far greater nation when it was isolationist and true to its origins, and not allowing chickenhawks in bed with big business to dictate foreign policy
You are right. The U.S. made two Big Mistakes in the 20th century.
1. Entering the Great War in 1917
2. Backing Britain to the hilt and cutting of the Japanese in trade. We should have remained truly neutral.
ruveyn
I was thinking more about the colonial adventures such as the Spanish American War, the Philippine War, all the interventions in Latin America, all before the threat of Communism was used to justify the US sphere of influence. The First World War should never have happened, period. But I think the US was justified in entering based on the submarine attacks on its shipping and the damning Zimmerman telegram where the Germans attempted to get Mexico into the Central Powers and invade the US to prevent their intervention in Europe, which they saw as inevitable at that point. The Second World War and the US' involvement is also justified, in that they were quite clearly attacked. Japan and the Axis nations were aggressive and war was inevitable. If the US had not entered at that point, they would have fought Japan and Germany eventually, and probably on their own soil
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02 Jul 2012, 11:40 am
