SGG's Pick the President Poll

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Originally Posted by 70Chip

I have two questions. First, were we right to involve ourself in the European territorial dispute of the 1940s?

And second, when did we have troops stationed in Mecca?


Lastly. let me say that my experience with Republican isolationists like Ron Paul, or Pat Buchanan, or Bob Novak has been that they are mostly just good old fashioned anti-semites. I think they want to pull out of there because they would like to see the Jews driven into the sea.

This is in no way meant to throw an accusation like that at anyone here. I want to be perfectly clear about that. I'm not calling anyone an anti-semite in this forum. Unless Pat Buchanan is posting in which case I am.

We entered WW 2 because:
1) We supported the U.K. and friendlies with both humanitarian supplies and military hardware.
2) We deprived the Japaneses of natural resources once they started their gears of war.
3) Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and United states declared war on Japan.
4) Germany declared war on United States because of self interest because the Americans were supporting the U.K.

The United States entered the war at the right time, under the right circumstances, and it had the moral high ground. We would not be in the position we are today if it were not for WW 2.

As for Having troops in Mecca, well, we had roughly 5K troops in Saudi Arabia during the Golf war. We don't have troops inside holy city of Mecca, but as far as people like Bin Laden are concerned, the entire Arabian peninsula is holy land.