U.S. Isolationist Policy- 1939

The U.S. should be Interventionists because Hitler has show that he is more than willing to ignore treaties if he has the capability to overrun the enemy military. Neutrality for trading between enemies never worked out as the war of 1812 showed since Britain and France just forcefully conscripted american sailors into their own navies to prevent goods from reaching one another. Britain only managed to remain uninvaded for so long and made hitler go after Stalin instead was because of supplies from the U.S. And the Japanese were expanding in Asia and the pacific as they tried to create their empire. Sooner or later, any U.S. pacific bases such as wake island would be threatened by the expanding Japanese or completely surrounded. If these bases were abandoned, that would just be following appeasement and it was appeasement that convinced Hitler he could take over Europe. The U.S. already tried to stop the expansion of the Japanese empire through trade embargoes but that only gave them more incentive to expand since they needed the resources. And should Britain be defeated, it is only a matter of time before hitler deploys all his u-boats to the eastern waters of the U.S. while the Japanese attack from the west. The whole reason behind Pearl Harbor was because the Japanese feared that sooner or later the U.S. would try to forcefully stop their expansions so they decided to take out the Pacific Fleet so they couldn't be stopped.

Uh...this wasn't the point of the thread, lol.
Don't worry. I misread the first post too sometimes .

It's easier to come up with arguments for why we SHOULDN'T go to war when you know why your opponent advisors thinks we SHOULD go to war.

Think of the opposite and work from there.

KK.

Why we should go to war........counterarguments

-End the Depression.....................Uh...uh...yeah you're right.
-Protect Democracy.................*can't think of any counterarguments*
-Neutrality doesn't work, since xxx countries would backstab us.....exactly, that's why we should be isolationist!
-Hitler would invade us eventually, it's better to have some allies now.............yeah he's right.


Those are the ones I can think of at the top of my head, and only one of them counts as an argument...and a rather weak one at that...