re: #437 HappyWarrior

I haven’t known too many engineers. Thing about American First is I think and this is by no means a justification of the appeasement in the days leading up to the German invasion of Poland but I think a lot of people were truly wary of war after WWI just like I think many are after Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s my take on it though.

I think that’s very true. Europe had been having wars every generation or two for as long as anyone could remember, and this seemed like just one more. Add to that the real horror of WWI - in many ways, although the death tolls were so much higher in WWII, WWI was more horrific. The slaughter in the trenches was meaningless, random, pointless, and seemed to go on interminably, unlike any war Europe had experienced. No winners and losers, just the dead and maimed.

Then there’s the natural insularity of American thinking from 1776 till the end of WWII, and it’s no surprise there was reluctance to get involved.