Does military isolationism really not work?

Question

War or isolation? let's see. kill and use up trillions of dollars of resources and destroy the world, or save for greater danger. i asked an earlier question on isolationism. one answer said isolationist countries lost ww i and ii. no. england was isolationist in wwii. fearing russia more than germany, england refused to help france as in ww i. saved resources and thumped the nazi air attack in the battle of britain, over british skies, conserving fuel. isolationism won, as the german planes had to fly too far to and from the fighting. the u.s. is fighting in wars in asia. that is all the way on the other side of the planet. is this dumb or what?

Answer 1

The US had an isolationism attitude prior to WW II because we had oceans on both sides that any enemies could not fly over to bother us. Then came Pearl Harbor. Sticking ones head in the sand never works. It only gives the evildoers more time to prepare.

Answer 2

Neither truly work, if you are isolated from the rest of the world you will get beat by a country that is battle hardend, Japan was cut off from the rest of the world and when the US sent William Perry with a battle fleet to the coast of Japan, they were forced to accept unreasonable trade negitioations. And a all war country will also get beat by battle fatigue, which is arguebly why Germany lost WWI even when they had managed to stop Russia. The best is a mix of both, offense and defense, fighting and talking.

Answer 3

You really might want to go study some history. The Brits sent nearly 1/2 million men to France at the start of WW2, their withdrawal was the basis of the famous battle and rescue at Dunkirk.

Educate yourself.

Answer 4

This is not rocket science. You either oppose evil or you enable it. It is as simple as that.

"All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

-Sir Edmund Hillary