Originally posted by straffo
Some points :
even if I hate siding with the brits (our traditionnal enemy you know
) at least Chamberlain tried something and I'm not sure he had a lot of option giving his health and the hope lot of people had to not see a second world wa r(perfectly illustrated by your last sentence ).
It's also easy to say the European have 8 to 10 century of war when living in a country about 200 years old.
But as lot of Americans I guess you have possibly Euro blood and possibly are as guilty as me of whe happened 300 year go 
(seriously this idea crack me up
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Hehe. I guess you could say Chamberlain tried something, despite the fact that it obviously was not going to work.
Yeah, we've only been around 229 years. OTOH, how many of the wars we've been in were started in one way or another by European powers, especially in the 20th Century? My point was, for centuries, Europe has been engulfed in wars of conquest, and that did not change until World War II ended. No, the US is not lilly white, far from it. In fact, I think we should also bear some of the blame for allowing World War II to escalate. We should have prepared for war earlier and better, and done something before we were attacked.
OTOH, you have to remember that MOST of the citizens of the US had LEFT Europe, and wanted little to do with Europe, especially when it came to being drawn into ANOTHER European war of conquest. The idea that Europeans cornered the market on being war weary after the 1st World War is a little facetious. Both times we came in late, but we were still there and it still cost us dearly.
Yes, I do have German blood, and also a little Irish blood, in my veins. My Dad's father came over from Germany a few years before World War I. Unlike some, I do not blame the descendants for what the ancestors did. Just like I find the notion of blaming white US citizens of today for slavery absurd, I find the notion of blaming those Europeans outside the governments of the European nations involved (much less the Europeans not even born then) for World War II absurd.