While I recognize the over-extension of America in the world, I refuse to accept the laissez-faire attitude that we haven't the right nor the obligation to protect some of these regions. In principle, I agree with you - let me get that out in the open to begin with. In practice, however, we must take into consideration the impact it would have not only ourselves but the world if we were to pack up our bags and isolate ourselves as we once were before World War II.Â
This perpetuates the fallacious statist propaganda, that the US was peacefully minding its own business under "isolationism," which was actually complacency-- while the big, bad EVIL Fascists, Japanese and Nazis-- OH MY!-- were preparing to attack, invade and conquer us-- the richest, most war-capable and most well-armed nation on earth.
Sorry, but this is BULLSHIT!
In reality, Germany was after Stalin-- and history proves that they were RIGHT to do it; but the doctrine of "vae victus--" i.e. self-fulfiling logic-- shows that the Third Reich Nazis were a force sent by Satan to conquer all that is good and right, and so FDR was on a Mission from God to stop them.
We even had the kangaroo post-war Nuremberg trials to prove it-- despite that the defendants were railroaded, and similar war-crimes were perpetrated by ALL sides in the war.
"Woe to the vanquished."
Meanwhile, Japan was after the natural resources in China-- which was not a US ally. Rather, FDR wanted "in" on the war in Europe, but over 75% of Amewricans didn't--Â and so he trumped up an excuse by:
(1 forming secret pacts with England to support their declaration of war (don't insult your intelligence-- or mine-- by pretending that "lend-lease" etc. was just an after-thought-- or that the Brits were fully intent on going it alone prior); and
2) squeezing Japan via competing their oil-resources on behalf of the Rockefellers, while ignoring Japan's pleas for peace, until war became their only alternative.
War naturally converts productive assets into destructive ones, and hence is practical statist profit-venture. Simply put, it was entirely unprofitable for the Germans OR the Japanese to make or declare war on the US-- they weren't stupid; however FDR's covert actions
deliberately left them with no choice.
As for "crimes against humanity:" this is simply the price of statism, which results within
all totalitarian regimes The US cannot play "humanity police" to the world-- the Constitution not only doesn't permit it, while crime is a
legal designation-- not a subjective one-- and can only be prevented where such laws exist-- with viable and prescribed means of enforcement.
Rather, the term "crimes against humanity" is simply a buzz-word preceding a "mission from God," i.e. a carte blanche to transcend the sovereignty of other nations over their domestic-policy issues.
To suggest that Hitler could have taken over the USSR-- and Japan taken over China-- and turned them against the US, is complete foil-hat paranoid insanity-- particularly in comparision to the fact that our ALLY-- one Joseph Stalin-- did PRECISELY that, and BECAUSE of our our interventions.
And indeed, if such ever actually
did threaten, then our best option would be to organize inside-resistance inside these nations, helping them to win their
own freedom, rather than sacrificing
our blood and resources.
Hower instead, we assisted a villain in suppressing his own people-- the deceptive grounds of telling the American people that the Soviets
chose to live in such a fashion!
But does the US admit looking like a complete jackass, because of this
unwanted interference? Nope-- they hail it as a glorious victory against evil-- and
curse anyone who wanted to stay out of it, as cowards and fools!
Thus we truly see that history is written by the victors-- and embraced by the sheep.
Let's face it: the Civil War turned the US into a corporate-statist empire, and such an entity cannot survive except via imperialism; when power becomes centralized, and military conscription hence becomes legal, it's easy to find an excuse for war.
FDR, knowing full-well that history is written by the victors, had no problem in using any means necessary to hoodwink the US into the war-- and the current pro-WWII sentiment held by most Americans (i.e. FOOLS), proves that FDR was right-- about history being
written by the victors, that is.
As to whether the US
should have gotten involved in WWII: we should NOT have, since it was against the will of the American people-- PERIOD-- and therefore it's not a democracy if one lone demagogue can successfully thwart it via duplicity, and thereafter be embraced as a righteous hero.
Whether we're simply
better off for getting into WWII--
aside from the "demagogue-hijacked democracy" thing:
it's self-fulfilling to suggest that we are, when the evidence following the Cold War reveals more global devastation from communism, than ever would have likely transpired from the Germans or the Japanese.
However, there's
no excuse for hijacked democracy-- even if the evidence in favor of "positive benefits" from such, WASN'T purely manufactured. The ends do NOT justify the means-- particularly when the ends were purely speculative.
However history is, once again, written by the victors to
support evidence such ends, by
manufacturing such evidence in its favor during hindsight-- and so it's
definitely no excuse, unless one
believes in tyranny. There's no such thing as a physical victor, who thinks he doesn't also have a
moral victory-- or that the war was for nothing; the megalomaniacal, war-mentality ego, just couldn't handle it.
And tyranny is the inevitable result of centralized government: there is
no such thing as a "benevolent dictatorship." Power doesn't
just corrupt: it IS corrupt!
It's time for the states to take back their individual sovereignty-- which is, after all, theirs by law. The Civil War was illegal, and hence its policy-precedents void by duress and deception.
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