User blog comment:Super Warmonkey/Libertarian Party/@comment-2153819-20120813193617

I don't want to get too much into this because of my lousy arguing skills but the U.S.A. entered World War II because Japan bombed Pearl Harbour. They wanted revenge so they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then Britain effectively coerced them into joining the war against Nazi Germany through example. Americans don't fight when they don't want to, and they do fight when they do want to, even when the rest of the world doesn't want them to. All of the conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries are testament to this fact. Ergo, when the U.S.A. does get involved in a war, it is because the war is somehow significant to them directly. So I wouldn't really call it a mistake as much as I would call it a grievance. So what if your nation lost lives in Korea and Vietnam. Would you - as an American - be happier if those two nations became Communist? methinks the U.S.A., both the government and the people, still like to fight if it means defending American ideals and way of life abroad. They just don't like the repercussions.

I always wonder why Americans voted for George W. Bush Jr. for a second consecutive year when they probably knew it would mean sending more soldiers into battle in Iraq.