Taz! on 08 December 2009
It depends on the situation, for example if it seemed apparent that the USA was getting defeated in the conflict then why would smaller countries help when they would just be crushed?
And countries don't owe the USA nothing in this sense, all conflict America has entered in the past has been in its own security/interests. In WW2 the USA didn't do very much, it was the British and to a much larger extent the Soviets who defeated Hitler, and the USA left those countries on their own until she finally got attacked.
