RE: War or no war?

>No disrespect to you in particular Ink but it’s interesting
>how many people bring up the late entry of the US into WWI
>and II. That and the fact of past US reluctance to
>participate directly in many of the so called “brush wars”
>of the cold war period, are clearly ment to imply that
>Americans are only self-serving cowards. On the other hand,
>when it suits them, these same people also accuse the US of
>”rushing to war” instead of giving diplomacy a chance.

Sauron,

I’m not trying to suggest that the US are “self-serving cowards”, nor am I suggesting that they are guilty of being war-mongers. I’m merely trying to point out that every single war they have started or been involved in has been to further their own interests in some way or another and not to save some poor downtrodden people on the other side of the world. Nothing to be ashamed of there, its the same for every other nation on the planet – its just an easily forgotten fact in this climate of “just humaritarian war” rhetoric and propaganda.