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During the first 2 World Wars we tried very hard each time to stay out of them.



I am uncertain that this is accurate. I'm not a scholar on Wilson and I know he was re-elected in 1916 in large measure because he "kept us out of war." Yet by April, 1917, the U.S. enetered the First World War. Wilson had an idea of his League of Nations and may have felt that U.S. entry into the European war was necessary to advance his global cause.

And there remains continued, ongoing controversy over the extent to which FDR "permitted" Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the extent to which he believed entry in WWII was necessary to shake off the final remnants of the Depression.

So I think, PJP, your above remark remains a position on which there is debate.

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