[jimbob45]

That same argument could have been used to justify staying out of WW2. Even if Hitler was guaranteed to stay out of US affairs post-war, the fact remains that joining sooner would have resulted in millions of Europeans keeping their lives.

Same here. Prematurely joining conflicts now allows us to save scores of lives abroad (at least in theory).

[fuoqi]

I would say that the recent interventions in Libya, Syria, Iraq have only destabilized the region, thus resulting in a huge loss of live and miserable living conditions for citizens of affected countries, which in turn supports and revitalizes radical Islam organizations and further destabilizes situation in Europe, which has to be on the receiving end for refuges created by those interventions.

[tafox]

Nazi Germany declared war on the US first.

[ls612]

Even if they hadn’t we still would have declared war on them. It only moved up the timetable slightly.