Related to another OP, should the US have entered World War II earlier than it did?

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39. I'm fundamentally an isolationist, but in the case of WW-II we royally screwed up.

The attack on Pearl Harbor probably wouldn't have occurred if we had been engaged in Europe and the Pacific fronts. Most likely we could have prevented D-Day from being necessary. We should have entered the theater in 1938-1940. I'm still an isolationist, but there are legitimate exceptions and that was one of them. We have no business being in Iraq or Afghanistan now and shouldn't have gone into either. That's not a global threat, it's a regional matter.

And as for a declaration of war, WW-II was the last one we've had. Since then we've just bombed the hell out of innocent civilians without Congressional declaration. Korea, VietNam, Granada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and coming soon to a theater near you, Syria, are all outside the realm of Constitutional boundaries.

If we're going to put our troops in the firing line, Congress needs to declare war. It was never intended to be the whim of whatever president was in office and presidents from both parties have violated the intention. I'm a liberal, but I do not approve of what is going on now. I'm just glad we have Obama instead of rMoney.

Two of my three daughters have boyfriends in the military. I don't want to see either of them deployed for some bullshit "police action". Both are fine young men with good intentions. They're serving in the military, one Army, the other Airforce, to protect our country, not kill innocent civilians. I respect them for that and trust them with my daughters. End of rant.