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Re: a dumb query? pls humor me



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On 03/07/07 17:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:33:18AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> There's a difference between fighting a war because the planet is in
>> immediate danger and complicating a civil war or other largely internal
>> conflict.  We did the former in both world wars.  We've done the latter in
>> Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq.  We started off good in Afghanistan before we
>> started hiring warlords again, setting us up for the next American-funded
>> terrorist to attack America.
>>
> Umm, prior to WWI and WWII we had an isolationist bent.  We waited for

Except in the Americas (Monroe Doctrine, Haiti, Banana Wars) and the
Philippines, which some wanted to make an American colony.



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