The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-20-2020, 11:10 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: America was anti-war and didn't want to get involved. One world war was already enough.

The USA was mostly isolationists for the bulk of the inter war period, especially early.  If you want to get a feeling for how that changed, read the entire "Four Freedoms" speech by FDR, also known as the 1941 State of the Union address, delivered almost a year before Pearl Harbor.  The first part of the speech, before he goes into the Four Freedoms at the end, has much to do with how America had to be prepared to meet Fascism by force.

(First you give the bitter reality of the situation. In the end you give the noble ideas. Only the latter were supposed to be permanent.)

If America was a little too ready to implement the Domino Theory after the war, the Four Freedoms speech is to a great degree how the Domino Theory got started.  (Chuchill's Iron Curtain speech gets the other nod.)  You have to be ready to stop aggression by autocratic powers dead.  You can't let them get started.

They were arguably a little too enthusiastic.