Actually, the ones who went were for the most part the ones who couldn't make it in Europe. Draw your own conclusions from that
And, about WWII, how the US would have freed Europe even if Germany wouldn't have declared war:
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War Message of the President (Roosevelt) to the Congress, Dec. 11, 1941
"To the Congress of the United States:
On the morning of December 11 the Government of Germany, pursuing its course of world
conquest, declared war against the United States.
The long known and the long expected has thus taken place. The forces endeavoring to enslave the entire world now are moving toward this hemisphere.
Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty, and civilization.
Delay invites greater danger. Rapid and united effort by all the peoples of the world who are
determined to remain free will insure a world victory of the forces of justice and of righteousness over the forces of savagery and of barbarism.
Italy also has declared war against the United States.
I therefore request the Congress to recognize a state of war between the United States and
Germany and between the United States and Italy.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
THE WHITE HOUSE, "December 11, 1941."
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