2) Despite what the Founding Fathers said, the US got involved in World War I and World War II. World War I had nothing to do with American national security and hardly had anything to do with the United States at all, really. The United States could have stayed out of World War II even if Western Europe was taken over by the Nazis. We had the manpower, sea-power, and air-power to protect the United States from our enemies if they decided to try to invade the United States; (';I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant'; is what Admiral Yamamoto said after he attacked Pearl Harbor). The only reason why Adolf Hitler got into power in the first place is because the Europeans acted stupidly with nationalistic pride, which led to World War I, which led to the poor economic conditions in Germany that gave Adolf Hitler something to base his Nazi Party on. I also don't appreciate the snobby and ungrateful attitude Europeans have treated America with ever since World War II, and have actually seen Europeans trying to say the US didn't do anything of importance in the war. The utter contempt is disgusting. Why should we have young Americans die for the safety of a bunch of elitist scumbags in Europe, along with spend billions of dollars on aid for those countries, or what not?
3) The Vietnam War, the First Gulf War, and the Iraq War have nothing to do with American national security. For one, the Vietnamese didn't have nukes that could reach the United States and even if communism spread to Laos and some other non-influential countries (the Domino Theory), how would that have threatened us? The US entered the First Gulf War because Margaret Thatcher cornered George H.W. Bush and basically brought his manhood into question if he didn't get involved in the war (British bankers were angry at Saddam for scaring their clients in Kuwait, which was, and still is, ruled by a despot) and because of American oil interests. The US invaded Iraq in 2003 because Bush was trying to finish the job his father didn't, because Saddam tried to kill his father, because he was fed poor intelligence by the CIA, and also because of pressure from neoconservative (hawkish ex-communist) groups such as the Project For a New American Century, which wrote Clinton an open letter in 1998 urging him to invade Iraq because of Iraq supposedly threatening Israel's security (are they more concerned about the US, or Israel?).Is there any good reason why the US has become so involved in world affairs?
WWI: We tried to stay out of it. Then Germany tried to get Mexico to attack us.
WWII: We tried to stay out of it. Then Japan attacked us.
Even when we tried to stay out of things, we were pulled in. Combined with the growing threat of communism from the Soviets and Chinese, our foreign policy went from trying not to make enemies to taking out enemies before they can threaten us.Is there any good reason why the US has become so involved in world affairs?
yes The USSR was communist and well they want every one else to be communist even if they had to force it on them. so that forced us to take a more active role in world affairs
Woodrow Wilson strikes again. Look up Wilsonian progressivism, and wow they need to update the spell checker.
Simply put....we live in a global economy and a world at war is not something we can simply stand on the sides lines about now. We need other countries to buy are stuff and if they are not buying it because of war, then we loose out.
Japan bombed your asses off that's why you got involved and now the rest of the world have to put up with the guilt of US not coming to help out the Jewish people when it really counted.
By the way I am not one of those elitist Europeans I am from Australia a country that has backed US all the way and don't like the way our military and many others seem to be forgotten by US war history.
I for one would be ashamed of my country if it did not do the right thing when called on and would never want to be isolationist.
You do realise don't you that not getting involved in WW2 was nothing to be proud and all soldiers that fought and died deserve the same reconition no matter what country they happen to come from and I am grateful to everyone of them.
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