Which of the following scenarios do you think would be a justified military intervention by the US?

[Ferguson97]

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[Ferguson97]

None of these, considering that the first three would have ulterior motives and would only be used as a pretext anyway.

You would allow a genocide to occur because the US might have "ulterior motives"?

[Ferguson97]

None of these, considering that the first three would have ulterior motives and would only be used as a pretext anyway.

You would allow a genocide to occur because the US might have "ulterior motives"?

It's not "might." We already know what happened the last time Americans used "humanitarian concerns" to conduct an ethnic cleansing of their own in Southeast Europe.

There are ways of addressing ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity that fit well within the proscriptions of international law without relying on unilateral invasion. We have done this many times - international tribunals are set up for this very reason. Why America should be seen as wholly responsible for this, though, is beyond me.

If you were the US President at the time, would you have entered WW2?

[Ferguson97]

None of these, considering that the first three would have ulterior motives and would only be used as a pretext anyway.

You would allow a genocide to occur because the US might have "ulterior motives"?

It's not "might." We already know what happened the last time Americans used "humanitarian concerns" to conduct an ethnic cleansing of their own in Southeast Europe.

There are ways of addressing ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity that fit well within the proscriptions of international law without relying on unilateral invasion. We have done this many times - international tribunals are set up for this very reason. Why America should be seen as wholly responsible for this, though, is beyond me.

If you were the US President at the time, would you have entered WW2?

After Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war, yes. Not prior to that.

So if not for either of those events, you would've been content to just let the Germans kill every last Jew?

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If you were the US President at the time, would you have entered WW2?

After Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war, yes. Not prior to that.

So if not for either of those events, you would've been content to just let the Germans kill every last Jew?

If you actually believe American entry into the war had anything to do with that, you are quite deluded. The United States did not even enter to war for the purpose of opposing Fascism - and the Holocaust of the Jews wasn't even discussed in the press at the time because it was hardly known about. So preventing genocide as a reason for American entry into the war is virtually nonexistent.

Yes I'm aware of why the US entered WW2... but I didn't ask for a history lesson, I asked what YOU would do as President.