Originally Posted by SansSouci
Conrad,

Making other countries' internal affairs our business is interventionism, a concept condemned by our Founding Fathers, a concept that has caused blowback, a concept that has bankrupted us.

Interventionism is the policy of Democrats and neocons. Noninterventionism is the policy of authentic conservative. Our military was intended to protect our country and only our country.

Following your logic, if we can make another country's our business, then another country can make our business its business, right?

We never, ever stuck our heads in sand during WWII. We knew exactly what was happening. However, Americans wanted no part of another European war. And that's nearly exactly how President Washington admonished our Founding Fathers' progeny in his Farewell Address. And we had broken JN 25 long before Yamamoto got close to Pearl Harbor. We knew where Yamamoto was before he knew where he was.

We were duped in to WWII, just like we were duped in to WWI, of which, incidentally, Chruchill said our involvement screwed up the world. But then again, but for the Federal Reserve and its enabling amendment, that being the 16th Amendment, we would have never gotten involved in either of Europe's 20th century wars.
What Washington said in the 1700's doesn't apply today, because we are not isolated from the rest of the world. Look what happened on 9/11. That could easily happen with nuclear weapons when Iran develops them. Furthermore, if Iran gets control of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states they could destroy the world economy.

The Muslims have stated over and over that they want to destroy Israel and exterminate the Jews in Israel. We can't let that happen. I challenge you to embrace the deaths of 6 millions people.

We weren't duped into WW2. We were attacked by the Japanese and even if we had realized that they were bound for Pearl Harbor ahead of time that was and act of war and a state of war would have existed between us and Japan. So it doesn't matter if we knew that the Japanese were going to attack us.However, this doesn't matter either. After they attacked Pearl Harbor the Germans and Italians declared war on us. You think we should have ignored the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the declarations of war by Germany and Italy? If so you need to see a psychiatrist.

There are countries who make our internal affairs their business. A number of latin american countries including Mexico regularly do that.

Anyway most of the conflicts that we get into have nothing to do with the internal affairs of a country. They have to do with the actions of that country that effect us. Like North Korean invading the South. Iraq invading Kuwait. Afghanistan protecting Al Qaeda after they murdered 3000 of our citizens. In the case of Israel, it is thousands of terrorists attacking our ally.

Last edited by ConradCA; 07/27/14.

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