America has seldom been great at picking just wars. But even when it has scored well in the choosing it has caught hell from the critics. For example, when A. Hitler began reducing neighboring countries prior to World War II, Yankee intervention was opposed by millions, notably those organized as the American First Committee. A lunatic fringe? Hardly. Among the committee members were a future U.S. president (Gerald Ford) and some 800,000 others, including aviator Charles Lindbergh (a sometimes Nazi apologist). The group shut down after Pearl Harbor.
TOM TIEDE