[Tennessean4Bush]

Guard your borders with a strong military. Let people living in foreign countries defend themselves and solve their own problems.

So, is that the approach America should have taken in 1941?

Or, should we merely have attacked Japan and left Europe to fight Hitler?

[proxy_user]

Sometimes I wonder about that.

By rescuing Europe from Hitler, and then guarding them from Soviet aggression for forty years, we seem to have created a continent of spoiled socialists who rely on us for defense while criticizing everything we do.

Hitler made a similar mistake, declaring war on the US when we declared war on Japan. He could have told the Japanese too bad, I've got enough problems, but he honored his treaty with them. You can see where it got him.

If we had only fought the Japanese, the Soviets probably would have beaten Hitler and swept right through Europe. Then Stalin, and not us, would have been stuck with them.

I am not necessarily advocating any of this, but it could have happened that way, and now we'd be facing a different set of problems.