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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (159175)2/27/2006 7:37:56 AM
From: kech  Read Replies (3) of 794011
 
It wasn't altruism that led the USA to help defeat Germany and Japan, it was USA interests. Of course it was excellent that the USA joined in. But of course it was to benefit the USA, not NZ.

I have heard this argument before. As ManyMoose said, there were many pacifists in the USA and getting into the war was a close run thing until Pearl Harbor. If there hadn't been Pearl Harbor it might have taken more years for the "USA interests" to be so obvious. In fact, as Hitler and Stalin rolled into Poland, the cry went up in Britain (who had a treaty with Poland) and USA -- "Don't Die for Danzig!"

So far in Iraq from the perspective of NZ and Canada the interests of the US have been to intervene when it wasn't in the global interest to intervene. But tell me why this argument is not simply a convenient excuse for Free Riding nations such as Canada and New Zealand to sit by idly while Americans die to defend so called USA interests? I suppose we will never know until NZ is attacked and the USA pacificists win out and the US doesn't feel it is in the US interests to protect NZ.

In fact Europe Canada and NZ have essentially demilitarized so that they would be incable of defending themselves even if they were attacked and instead depend on USA interests to defend them.

The trick for Free Riding Nations is to have the Politicians say war is terrible and the USA loves war and any war the USA gets into is just for "their" interests. At the same time just say that if there is a war, don't worry, the USA will defend us for "their" interests.
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