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US intervention in over 100 years that could be classed as decent? Personally I do not support ANY armed intervention by nations that are not under threat themselves. If individuals' consciences compel them to fight Nazi's (and that is one I would have signed up for) then they're free to do so but armies should be used defensively only, it is the ONLY use of force that can consistently be justified.

BTW - While I can't agree with the myth that the US won the second world war (MILLIONS of dead Russians would also take issue I'd imagine) it also has to be remembered that while the rest of the world fought the Nazi's the US just sat back and made a fortune UNTIL Pearl Harbor was bombed.

The US DID NOT enter the war to save Jews, if that was their aim you'd think attempts to allow Jewish immigration from Europe wouldn't have been constantly stymied - that was a by product, much like the Soviets didn't enter Afghanistan to free the people from fundamentalism it was just a happy by product (for a time at least in Kabul and other cities) the Vietnamese didn't enter Cambodia to save the people from the Khmer Rouge, by product. All these nations acted in their OWN self interest, just as the US is doing in Iraq now.