Rath said:
In WWI the United States only became involved once unrestricted submarine warfare restarted, due to the sinking of the Lusitana it was politically nessecary for the USA to declare war in order to save face. They only joined nearly 3 years after the start of the war. In WWII the USA obviously only joined after the attack on Pearl Harbour, once again it was nessecary (this time both militarily and politically) to join the war. In neither case did they join the war in order to help their allies. |
The U.S. didn't join the war solely because they wanted to help their allies. There were a lot of reasons why the U.S. joined the war, but you are right in assessing that we had out own interests at stake.
But it is also true that the members of "Western Civilization" have a strange kind of magnetism with one another and when things are looking pretty dire, we usually feel obligated to help.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
