For years the United States tried to avoid getting into conflict with other countries. For example, “Americans were not on the whole concerned about the rise of Nazism in the period leading up to the war, or even at first during the war.” Dreaming up America Russell Banks 2008 Edition pg 89 paragraph 1 “So, I don’t think what was happening in Germany in the 1930s was as frightening to the U.S. as it would have been had it happened elsewhere, because we trusted them a little more. Also, most of the victims so far seemed to be Jews, and no way was the U.S. going to come to the defense of Jews at that time. Especially if it was going to cost us money. The other thing was our sense simply of the physical distance. It wasn’t hard in those years leading into the war for Americans to say, this doesn’t concern us.” Dreaming up America Russell Banks 2008 Edition pg 90 paragraph 1
American troops went to Afganstan, with the intital intention of locating known terrorist Osama –Bin- Laden for his involvement with 911 attacks in the U.S. But because the Taliban requested that Bin laden leave the country, and they declined to extradite him to us without evidence that he was involved in the 911 attacks. American troops were dispatached to Afgan to right the wrong that was done to America. We would not have gone to Afganstan if American lives had not been taken without a second thought of our precious life really is.
American Air Forces had to interviene regarding the Libya Co.l Muammar Al –Quaddafi. The United States and its allies did not want to send in air strikes and wepontry upon Libya. However, when you have no regard for your people’s lives, the American people can’t sit idle and allow innocient people continue to lose their lives. Something needed and had to be done, so America did what we always do best. Step in and try to right the wrong. In