The Republic of Fore wrote:1. America also has a sovereign right to not get involved in other countries' business. We trade just fine with China, the biggest genocidal dictatorship on earth. People will always die and be killed by oppressive governments, whether we support them or not. Might as well as least get some benefit out of it. Unless we're going to occupy every single country on earth to make sure nothing bad ever happens.\
Just because people have always been killed by oppressive dictatorships doesn't mean that the US, or any country, should continue to enable them. And "Might as well as least get some benefit out of it" is a psychopathic mindset. Only psychopaths and robots devoid of ethics and morals would choose to trade lives for money.
2. I'm going to borrow a quote for this. "If polls show that 2/3 of Americans want to intervene in Syria, then we can draft that 2/3 and make them lead the way". Put up or shut up, people should either back up their words or admit they only care as long as it's not them in the crossfire.
38.8% (6,332,000) of enlisted Americans in WW2 were volunteers, and 61.2% (11,535,000) were drafted. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/stude ... ry-numbers
6 million voluteers... I think Americans didn't take Pearl Harbor well.