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Originally Posted by Rochard
You ass. I've visited Pearl Harbor. LOL.
I never said that at all. I am saying if the United States had stepped in and confronted Germany before Pearl Harbor it's entirely possible that Germany would have never attacked Poland, France, and then Russia and it's also entirely possible Japan would never have attacked Pearl Harbor. (On the other hand, if the US had confronted Germany in 1938 it's entirely possible Japan would have been even more encouraged to attack the United States.)
What I am saying is this.... The United States, as one of the world's most powerful military forces in the world, can either do nothing and watch events unfold and hope they don't get dragged in OR they can try to prevent from smaller regional issues become much larger. US policy prior to WWII was do nothing and hope we didn't get pulled in. Sometime after WWII / Korea, US policy became to take action to prevent larger conflict.
I am not saying US policy is always right. Sometimes it drags us into things we do not need to be in. Some times it becomes all out war. However, an all out proxy war is much better than a world war.
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If the GB and the rest of the world had got it's act together and told Germany to not spend millions re-arming to the level it had. If Hitler had been condemned instead of praised by Germans for oppressing Germans who didn't fit his Aryan model. If France, GB, US hadn't done all it could to avoid war and settled for policies of peace. Hitler wouldn't have started WW2.
Hindsight now tell us that appeasement was a mistake and all it does is allow the enemy to grow stronger.
Troops out of Syria isn't so bad. The Russians are there and they and Assad will be able to use methods the West doesn't like. The troops are staying in Iraq, instead of being pulled out which was Obama's mistake.