That's correct. Those that wished to profit by being a dominant power on the world stage sought involvement is many wars, all unnecessarily.We have become "stuck" playing world cop. Yep, but it is something we sought.
Sigh. Not this old mythology again.Today you can look at it and say, we shouldn't be doing this, but consider the point of view of those who set it up. Men who lived through WWII. Men who believed that not being the world cop led us to having to be the world cop in order to stop men like Hitler, Tojo, & Mussolini.
That's a great demonstration of the skill with which Roosevelt and his regime manipulated both events and the propaganda surrounding them. Not only did Roosevelt actively seek involvement in World War Two, he desperately did every conceivable action to drag America into it. Numerous acts of war against Germany and Japan for years finally produced the results he'd hoped for.
If neither Japan nor Germany had attacked America, and we'd remained out of World War Two, like most Americans wanted to do; Japan would still have been defeated and Germany would have been forced back within their borders. That was well on the way to happening by 1942.
Britain wanted American cannon fodder in order to ruin Germany for good, and Roosevelt only too happily provided them.
That is simply not true. Many things have changed since 1941.That only the clear willingness to spend both our money and our blood would contain others with similar desires, and do it before it became necessary to have a World War in order to stop them.
Although it's clear that corporate interests are still generating war fever at various levels, and still perpetrating the Rooseveltian myths about the desirability of militarism, it's simply wrong and dangerous.
Yes, that's exactly what we should do. Although I'd not use the warmongers term "into our shell" since we were never in one in our history, we do need to stop our world wide warmongering and hegemony.I would love to see us go back into our shell, relinquish those foreign entanglements. Stop being the world cop, tell the UN to find a new country to pay for their hare-brained social schemes, and just mind our own business as we peacably live our lives.
No, there's no known enemy on planet earth that would require any such thing.We could so that (even though it would cost some very rich folks a lot of money, so they would do their best to prevent it). But sooner or later, something in the world would require us to come out of our shell and fight, just to preserve us. And it would cost. Cost like none has seen before.
The only such enemy is one created by the US government to gin up more government power. That's really all it's ever been about.
War is the health of the state.